Wednesday, July 31, 2019

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/80514-cully-to-retire-from-baker-taylor.html

PW reports-

Cully to Retire from Baker & Taylor

After only two years, David Cully, who has seen Baker & Taylor through a number of transitions since joining the company in 2008, will retire at the end of August. B&T parent company Follett Corp. said Cully will be succeeded as president by Amandeep Kochar, who has been promoted to executive v-p of B&T. Kochar had been in charge of the company’s public library sales and technology teams.

Cully who sold B&T's Entertainment business to Ingram Entertainment, is currently overseeing the wind down of B&T’s retail wholesaling business, which is expected to be largely completed by the end of the summer. In May, Follett announced that it was closing B&T’s retail wholesaling arm, which supplies books to bookstores and other retailers to focus on its library operations, a move which better aligns B&T’s business with Follett.

When Cully first joined B&T he was in charge of its retail and merchandising functions, and in that role oversaw the purchase of Bookmasters and played a large role in integrating B&T into Follett following the company’s purchase in 2016 and George Coe's departure. He was named B&T president in 2017.

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