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MOVES- Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao is stepping down in October and handing the position over to protege Nick Read<\/strong>, Reuters reports<\/a>. The move is being heralded in a press as a passing of the torch from a CEO who is universally acclaimed as having turned an asset laiden Vodafone ready to implode to a slender heavyweight competitor to the big Euro players and a generator of enormous shareholder wealth. The Financial Times<\/a> does an excellent job summarizing Colao\u2019s transformational impact and the large shoes left for Read to fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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