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David Adams left Jessops as chairman in February 2012.<\/p>\n

Adams said he had left Jessops after falling out with the chain’s bank, HSBC. He later made an unsuccessful bid to persuade HSBC to accept a private equity takeover deal.<\/p>\n

Jessops went into administration in January, closing its entire high-street store network.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Park Cameras, which is based in Burgess Hill, said: \u2018David is a highly regarded figure within the industry, seeing Jessops through a tough transitional period… <\/p>\n

‘He brings a wealth of business and financial experience to Park Cameras, having held a number of senior executive, and non-executive, roles, within a number of household names across the retail sector’.<\/p>\n

Roscoe Atkins, who is set to replace his father Reg as managing director, from 1 March, said Adams has a \u2018deep knowledge of the retail sector which will be of great value to Park as the business continues to move forward’.<\/p>\n

Adams’ retail experience includes previous roles at House of Fraser and, most recently, HMV where he was a non-executive director until the music and DVD retailer fell into administration.<\/p>\n

His current positions include serving as a non-executive director at Halfords, since March 2011.<\/p>\n

Adams said: \u2018I am excited to be joining Park Cameras at this time.<\/p>\n

\u2018The recent changes in the industry create opportunities for a business that is focused on providing great service for its customers. I look forward to working with Roscoe and the team at Park to realise those opportunities.’<\/p>\n

Reg Atkins, who is retiring from Park Cameras after 43 years, wished the team every success for the future.<\/p>\n

Last month, in an interview with Amateur Photographer<\/a><\/em>, Adams questioned whether camera suppliers would be attracted to the idea of a Jessops-branded outlet inside an HMV store.<\/p>\n

His comments followed speculation that this was one of the options being discussed after HMV’s restructuring firm, Hilco, emerged as among around half a dozen parties to have expressed interest in the Jessops name.<\/p>\n

Dragons’ Den<\/em> entrepreneur Peter Jones later emerged as one of the parties to have bought the Jessops brand.<\/p>\n

As we reported earlier, the Jessops website<\/a> is set to be re-launched.<\/p>\n

Hilco took control of HMV by buying its debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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