Clean sweep at CPI ... David Bull exits after 21 years

PagePack’s takeover of CPI sees another director depart as the new owners prepare to take the company off the stock exchange.

Bull’s exit comes after last week’s news that both managing director, Bernard Cassell and Denis Goodrem, strategic supply director were no longer with the company.

NEWS EXTRA: In news to hand Greg Street has also left CPI, indicating a total replacement of the upper management echelon at the paper merchant.

According to Bull, (pictured) the decision to move on came after his discussions with, CEO of the BJ Ball Group [Andrew Ball] where it was decided that there would no longer be a position of either executive director or sales and marketing director, both of which Bull filled. “For these reasons, I will be exiting the business and we have agreed that this will be effective on 16th May,” he said.

The move marks a major change not only for the company, which recently announced its decision to go private as a result of the takeover, but also for Bull, who joined CPI only months before his 18th birthday. “I have enjoyed my 21 years with the company enormously,” he wrote in an open letter to his clients and colleagues. “The company has continually provided me with opportunities for both professional and personal growth.”

Whether he remains in the industry or not, Bull, a lively fixture well-known to all in printing and graphic arts, maintains that he is “not quite ready to retire” and intends on “taking some time to spend with my young family, and to relax and think about what is best for our future.”