Rover’s return
13 September 2012
Tony Shine has accepted the job of supply chain director for the new MG Rover Group at a time when its future is anything but certain. He tells David Arminas why - and how - the company can prove the doubters wrong
One Wednesday afternoon last year, the logistics director for Rover’s Longbridge plant in Birmingham gratefully accepted his leaving gifts and then said his goodbyes after 18 years with the company. He was off to do the same job for Rolls-Royce Aerospace.
The following Monday, Shine was back in his old office. “I offered to give them back,” he says of his...