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(1999), "Coates chairman retires", Circuit World, Vol. 25 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/cw.1999.21725dab.038
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Coates chairman retires
Europe
Coates chairman retires
Keyword: Coates
After 32 years with Coates, Mike Cockett, Deputy Chairman of Coates Brothers PLC, and Chief-Executive of Coates Screen and Coates Electrographics retired at the end of April. He will remain as a non-executive director of Coates Brothers PLC.
Mike took over the Coates Screen business some 20 or so years ago and grew it into the second largest provider of screen printing inks world-wide, with manufacturing facilities on every continent. In 1983 he founded what was to become the Coates Electrographics global business in Circuit Products and Non-Impact Printing. A true visionary, he has seen the Screen and Electrographics businesses grow 100-fold in the relatively short time that he has been at the helm.
Mike is succeeded by Richard Martin, a founder member of Coates Electrographics, and currently Chief Executive of Coates Non-Impact Printing. Richard takes up the position of Managing Director, Coates Electrographics Ltd., and Business Director of both Coates Screen and Coates Electrographics.
Bob Courtney, also a founder of Coates Electrographics, steps aside after ten years as Chief Executive, Coates Circuit Products to return to the screen printing business as International CEO, Coates Screen.
His replacement is Jean-Yves Salaün, the highly successful Chief Executive of Coates Screen and Electrographics in France; he takes up the position of Director and General Manager, Coates Circuit Products, and will live near Bath. Jean-Yves has 20 years experience in the PCB fabrication supply industry, and brings a combination of experience, detailed technical knowledge and highly tuned commercial acumen to the Coates Circuit Products global operation.