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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon Hunt

Pret A Manger in board shake-up amid battle to cut debts

Pret A Manger has ushered one of its founders and longest-serving directors back to the company in a management shake-up as it seeks to bear down on its steep debt pile.

The London-based sandwich chain has brought back Larry Billett, Pret’s former Chairman from 2003 to 2011, alongside Sinclair Beecham who co-founded the business in 1983 with Julian Metcalfe. Billett will join the board as a non-executive director while Beecham will act as an adviser.

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