Committee Reports::Report No. 03 - Interim Report on the Impact of Grocery Multiples on the Grocery and Retail Markets and its Effect on Consumers, Small Grocery Retailers and Small Grocery Suppliers::23 March, 2005::Appendix

Appendix 2

A.2 Persons who gave Oral Evidence at Public Hearings of the Joint Committee

Tuesday, 2 November 2004


Tesco


•Mr Dermot Breen, Director


•Mr Gordon Fryett, Chief Executive


Superquinn


•Senator Feargal Quinn, Chairman


•Mr Eamonn Quinn, Deputy Chairman


Wednesday, 3 November 2004


RGDATA


•Ms Tara Buckley, Director General


•Mr Ray Ryan, President


•Mr Jim Marshall, Director


•Mr John Pettitt


BWG Foods


•Mr Leo Crawford, Group Chief Executive


•Mr John O’Donnell, Group Finance Director


•Mr Conor Whelan, Managing Director


•Mr Simon Marriott, Trading Director


Wednesday, 10 November 2004


The Competition Authority


•Dr. John Fingleton, Chairman


•Ms Carol Boate, Division Manager, Advocacy Division


Musgrave/Supervalu/Centra


•Mr Seamus Scally, Group Managing Director, Musgrave Group


•Mr Chris Martin, Group Finance Director, Musgrave Group


•Mr Donal Horgan, Managing Director, Musgrave SuperValu Centra


Lidl


•Mr Patrick Kaudewitz, Managing Director


Wednesday, 12 January 2005


TASTE Council


•Mr Peter Ward (chairperson and Owner/Manager of Country Choice, an independent delicatessen in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary)


•Mr Ross Lewis (chef/proprietor of Chapter One Restaurant, Parnell Square, Dublin)


•Mr John McKenna (author of the Bridgestone Guides)


Dublin Meath Growers Society Limited


•Mr Pat O’Connor, General Manager


•Mr Simon Walsh, Commercial Manager


•Mr John Hogan, Member/Technical Advisor


Combat Poverty Agency


•Mr Jim Walsh


•Ms Audrey Deane, St Vincent de Paul


•Mr Jack Dempsey, Crosscare


Thursday, 13 January 2005


Retail Ireland


•Mr Richard Nesbitt, Chairman


•Mr Torlach Denihan, Director


Wednesday, 26 January 2005


The Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs


•Ms Carmel Foley, Director of Consumer Affairs


Marks & Spencer


•Mr Jonathan Glenister, Divisional Food Manager


•Mr Neil Hyslop, Divisional Executive for Ireland


Wednesday, 23 February 2005


•The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mr Michéal Martin, TD


•Mr Gerry Donnelly, Principal Officer, Competition Policy


•Mr Gary Dixon, Assistant Principal Officer, Competition Policy