PRH commercial director Waters to leave

Penguin Random House UK’s group commercial director, Nigel Waters, is to leave the business at Easter. The company is still working out where Waters’ team will report, and an announcement about some new roles and responsibilities is to follow in the coming weeks, PRH said.  Ian Hudson, deputy c.e.o. of PRH UK, said Waters had decided over Christmas that "the time had come to try something new and we have reluctantly agreed”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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