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• Wal-Mart named Ed Chan, former regional director of North Asia for Dairy Farm international, to be president/CEO of its China division. He succeeds Joe Hatfield.

• Coca-Cola has appointed Jonathan Mildenhall, currently the strategy director at London-based ad agency Mother, which has Coke as a client, to be its new VP-global marketing.
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