George Vestey is the third son of Edmund and Anne Vestey. Having served in the British Army, he joined the family business in the late 80’s as a trainee butcher and progressed through several managerial roles in the retail butchery division of the business. Operating both in Australia and in the UK, he was successively appointed HR Director and Marketing Director for JH Dewhurst. Having spent time away from the business working with his own retail butchery business, George returned in 2006 as Executive Assistant to the CEO of the Group. He now holds the role of Chief Executive Officer of Vestey Holdings Limited which he has held since 2010.
Robin Vestey is the fourth and youngest son of Edmund and Anne Vestey. Robin studied at Edinburgh University before joining the family business in the 1980’s, working in the cold storage, transport and shipping sides of the business in France, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, and in the UK. When Blue Star Line was sold in 1998, Robin enrolled to study agriculture at the then Royal Agricultural College where he acquired the practical knowledge to take on the role of Alternate Director and become immersed in the farming activities in Brazil and Venezuela. On Edmund’s retirement in 2004, Robin became a Non-Executive Director and, in 2020, took on the chairmanship of the newly formed family council.
Colin Copland is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He did his training in Aberdeen before moving to Southern England in the late 1970’s to take up his first position in the food industry. He became Finance Director of a fuel distribution business in the mid 1980’s before becoming Group Finance Director in 1988 of a listed company with diverse activities including food trading and food manufacturing. In 2003 Colin joined Vestey Holdings Limited and was appointed Group Finance Director in 2006.
