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Name: Andy McCarterTitle: Vice-president of European manufacturing, Fruit of the Loom.

Name: Andy McCarterTitle: Vice-president of European manufacturing, Fruit of the Loom.

Age: 47.

Family: Married with three children.

Education: Was a pupil at Coleraine Academical Institution and later took a BSc honours degree in Chemical Engineering at Queen's University Belfast.

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Interests: He spends most of his free time sailing and also goes skiing as often as he can.

Why is he in the news? He took over the running of the company's interests in Ireland and Morocco from his brother Willie McCarter, who left the company after a bitter dispute with senior US executives.