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BIRD TO HEAD DISNEY INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

BURBANK  - The Walt Disney Co. has named a veteran Time Warner executive to head its international business, filling a post that had been vacant for more than half a year.

Andy Bird, who had been president of Time Warner Inc.'s TBS International, will join Disney in January, the company said.
 
Bird replaces Michael Johnson as president of Walt Disney International. Johnson stepped down in April to become chief executive of nutritional products maker Herbalife International.

Bird joined Time Warner in 1994 as senior vice president at the TBS Europe arm that produced the Cartoon Network. He became president of TBS International in 2000 with responsibility for all TBS broadcasting outside the United States.
 
Bird will be based at Walt Disney's headquarters in Burbank.
 
VELTEX NAMES NEW SALES, MARKETING VP
 
CITY OF INDUSTRY - Jameel Ahmad is the new head of marketing and sales at the Veltex Corporation.

Ahmad is founder and operator of his own financial services company specializing in estate and financial planning for both individual professionals and business owners.

Born in Kenya and educated in London where he obtained his Master's degree in Business Administration, Ahmad has made the US his home since 1979.
 
Veltex Corporation is a diversified holding company composed of three divisions: Veltex Transportation, a trucking company; Veltex Apparel, specializing in caps, apparel and apparel accessories for the Promotional Products Industry; and Velvet Textile Mills, specializing in the manufacture of high quality fabrics including velvets, 100% cotton twill, denim, sheeting for consumer and industrial products.

UTi WORLDWIDE APPOINTS NEW BOARD MEMBER

RANCHO DOMINGUEZ - Logistics services provider UTi Worldwide Inc. has announced the appointment, effective December 1, 2003, of Dr. C. John Langley, an authority in the areas of global logistics and supply chain management, to its board of directors.

Langley is a professor of supply chain management and director of supply chain executive programs for The Logistics Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He also participates in programs of The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific, located in Singapore.

Previously, he served for nearly three decades at the University of Tennessee, most recently as the Dove Distinguished Professor in logistics and transportation. While at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Langley co-founded three organizations that have helped to shape the development of the industry: the Center for Logistics Research, the Supply Chain Forum and the Office of Corporate Partnerships.

Langley is a former president of the Council of Logistics Management, has co-authored three major industry texts, and has been published in the Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics Management and Supply Chain Management Review.

He earned his B.S., M.B.A. and Ph.D at Pennsylvania State University in mathematics, finance and business logistics, respectively.

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