{"id":5161,"date":"2012-02-02T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:18:04","slug":"craig-kidson-joins-cell-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/5161\/craig-kidson-joins-cell-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Kidson joins Cell C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Craig Kidson\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/400963-Craig-Kidson\">Craig Kidson<\/a> has been appointed as the executive head of consumer sales at <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/213919-Cell-C\" target=\"_blank\">Cell C<\/a>. Kidson replaces <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/346009-Sue-Kennedy\" target=\"_blank\">Sue Kennedy<\/a>, Cell C\u2019s executive head of sales and distribution, who left the company towards the end of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Kidson comes from a strong sales and distribution background, with positions like head of retail sales at <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\" target=\"_blank\">MTN<\/a> and the sales director for <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333656-Samsung\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung<\/a> mobile phones in South Arica.<\/p>\n<p>Kidson is also not new to Cell C. He was previously the executive head of sales and distribution at Cell C, but left the company in late 2007.<\/p>\n<p>This appointment comes only two weeks after Cell C announced that it had appointed <a title=\"Alan Knott-Craig\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224891-Alan-Knott-Craig-(Senior)\">Alan Knott-Craig<\/a> as the new chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p>Knott-Craig said that a strong distribution channel is a key focus area for him to improve the company\u2019s sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C\u2019s former head of sales, Craig Kidson, has been appointed as the executive head of consumer sales at Cell C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[43,42,1234,26,28,52],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-craig-kidson","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26528,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/26528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}