{"id":502500,"date":"2026-06-16T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502500\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:53:08","slug":"circle-k-ireland-boss-foxton-gets-new-global-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502500\/","title":{"rendered":"Circle K Ireland boss Foxton gets new global role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forecourt retailer Circle K&#8217;s Ireland Managing Director Ciara Foxton has been promoted to Senior Vice President Operations for Circle K Mid-Europe &amp; Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Foxton served as Managing Director of Circle K&#8217;s Irish business for two and half years since January 2024. Before that she was the company&#8217;s finance director.<\/p>\n<p>She has worked for Circle K since 2018 and her previous roles include senior finance roles at Life Style Sports, Arnotts, Kefron and Diageo.<\/p>\n<p>Circle K said her successor in the Irish market will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Foxton will assume her new position in July and will be responsible for Circle K Mid-Europe &amp; Asia which includes Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Circle K\u2019s Hong Kong business unit.<\/p>\n<p>In her new role, she will oversee the ongoing integration of the Circle K brand and business in Mid-Europe following on from the acquisition of over 2,000 locations from TotalEnergies in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Ciara Foxton said it has been a privilege for her to serve as MD of Circle K in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am proud of what we have achieved together, and the business continues to maintain a very strong position in the Irish market,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am excited to take on this new opportunity as we rollout the Circle K brand in key markets in Mid-Europe,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I joined Circle K Ireland in 2018 just as the brand started to become visible on Irish forecourts and I am excited to go on the same journey again across Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg as well as supporting our leaders in these markets,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forecourt retailer Circle K&#8217;s Ireland Managing Director Ciara Foxton has been promoted to Senior Vice President Operations for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-502500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}