Next board member to exit business after four decades

Next group sales, marketing and HR director Jane Shields is set to step down from the retailer after 40 years.
Shields is due to retire from the company on 21 May. She joined Next as a sales assistant in 1985, before being promoted to sales director in 1999, group sales and marketing director in 2010 and was appointed to the board in 2013.
Next online customer service director Matt Barnes will be promoted to the role of group sales and marketing director and will take on the majority of Shields&