Charles Beer has been appointed chief executive of events catering company, Crown Group. Beer has been with the firm for six years, a period that has seen the firm double its turnover to £40 million a year. “The Crown Group is at a very exciting time in its development and I am looking forward to leading the companies into a new era of catering excellence,” he says. “We have ambitious targets for growth and I am looking forward to achieving this through our core philosophies of high levels of customer satisfaction, retaining our loyal and committed team members and introducing state-of-the-art IT systems to bring the Crown Group firmly into the 21st Century.”