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Imperial crowns Cooper as newest member of FTSE’s elite women’s club  

Alison Cooper will become the fourth woman chief executive in the FTSE 100 when she steps into Gareth Davis's shoes in May.

Mrs Cooper, 43, said that, under her leadership, Imperial would focus more on sales and less on acquisitions such as the purchase of Altadis, the Franco-Spanish tobacco company. "I would like to have a stronger reputation for driving sales," she said.

She joins Dame Marjorie Scardino at Pearson, the educational publisher and home to the Financial Times, Angela Ahrendts at Burberry, the fashion house, and Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American, the mining group, in the elite club of female FTSE 100 chief executives.

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