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Nic Bottomley, co-owner of Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, Bath, England, and former president of the Booksellers Association of the U.K. and Ireland, has been appointed executive chair of the BA Group, the Bookseller reported. Bottomley will sit on the boards of the BA Group, BA Divisional, Books Tokens and Batch, and will continue to run his bookshop.
The position of executive chair was created in early 2018 and filled by Tim Godfray, who had been CEO of the BA for 33 years. He retired last year.
Bottomley, whose two-year term as BA president ended in March, commented: "Through my time sitting on BA Council and then serving as BA vice-president and president, I have learned what an incredible organisation the BA really is and how much it is valued by its broad membership. Each of its three divisions--the Booksellers Association, Batch and National Book Tokens--all serve and support the organisation's bookselling members in many different ways. I'm looking forward to working across the various boards to further refine and develop the group's strategy, development and governance."
BA managing director Meryl Halls said: "Nic Bottomley was a fantastic BA president, and has played an integral role in a number of key initiatives that we have launched during his tenure. Nic has shown stalwart support for the BA and is passionate about the importance of bookshops. We are excited to welcome him as executive chair, never more so than at this uniquely challenging time for bookselling, where Nic has already proven himself an insightful colleague and an inspiring leader."