Senior management step up at AGI

AGI Media Packaging has named Nick Toms as chief executive of its European operations

AGI Media Packaging has named Nick Toms (left) as the successor to Lee Newbon as chief executive of its European operations.

It has also appointed Tony Garnish (right) as European chairman, replacing Shaun Lawson, who is assisting parent group Westvaco with strategy.

Garnish joined AGI, then known as Tinsley Robor, in 1993, while Toms joined Tinsley Robor as commercial manager of James Upton Birmingham in 1978 and joined its board in 1990.

Newbon has moved up to head AGIs global business.