LG Electronics' chief operating officer resigns

LG Electronics UK's chief operating officer, Ward Crawford, has resigned after just eight months in the job.

The announcement comes following the recent departure of the company's marketing director, Andrew Warner and ahead of LG's mobile sales and marketing director, John Barton, who will leave in April. Crawford joined LG as UK and Ireland coo in May 2009 and was responsible for regional sales and marketing operations across all LG's product categories. LG said he is set to leave 'in the next week or so' and it yet to be decided whether he will be directly replaced.