DC Thomson has announced that current director Murray Thomson will retire from the business at the end of May 2014.
Chief Operating Officer David Thomson has been appointed to the board of directors. Murray Thomson joined the firm in 1957 and was appointed a director in 1974.
In his earlier days, he worked in the company’s Glasgow, Manchester and London offices, and for much of his career was based in the company’s Bank Street premises, where he was particularly involved in the advertising and circulation areas.
In 1992 he moved to the Kingsway premises when printing moved to the site.
He played a major role in many other parts of the company’s operations, including newspaper production, magazines, gravure printing and contract printing, and was also a non-executive director of Central TV for 10 years.
David Thomson begins his new role on the board with immediate effect, and will combine this with his current role as chief operating officer, which he has held since 2011.
David joined DC Thomson from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in October 2003.
Since then he has held several roles in the business, including joint managing director of newspapers, prior to the appointment of Ellis Watson in 2011.
He is also a non-executive director for Design Dundee Limited, the company set up to build and develop V&A at Dundee.
From June the board of directors will comprise Andrew Thomson and Christopher Thomson (joint managing directors), Richard Hall and David Thomson.
The board is developing the company’s family of businesses, innovation ventures and other interests with the assistance of other senior family members in the business and the CEOs of group businesses Ellis Watson (DC Thomson Publishing), Richard Higgs (brightsolid Online Technology), Annelies van den Belt (DC Thomson Family History) and Paul Taylor (Parragon).