Avon chairman steps down

BRADFORD-ON-AVON, England (Feb. 22)—Avon Rubber P.L.C. chairman Christopher King has resigned from the company for health reasons, and has been replaced by Trevor Bonner, who had been deputy chairman and senior independent chairman since 1998. Terry Priestley, who was appointed a non-executive director of Avon in 1998, has assumed Bonner´s previous executive positions on the Avon board.