CHRIS Brennan, Pfizer's community relations manager, is retiring after 34 years with the company. He has been a prominent member of Kent's business community for many years.

Chris has been a judge for the Kent Business Awards on many occasions and represented his employer assiduously at CBI annual conferences. He has devoted much time to extra curricular activities, including Kent Maritime Chamber of Commerce (board member), commissioner of the Sandwich Port and Haven Commission, and Pfizer's representative on the Chemical Industries Association London and South East Regional Committee. He has also has been active as chairman of the Pfizer Tennis Club and was recently made PSC Club Member of the Year for his work on junior tennis coaching.

He joined Pfizer in London in 1967 as a supervisor in the fine chemicals fermentation department and later worked in Ireland. He moved to Sandwich in 1979 as materials manager in the pharmaceutical manufacturing division.

In 1989, Chris was appointed to the newly created position of Academic Liaison Manager in central research where he laid the foundations for today's widely-admired school liaison programme.

He gave increased focus to the company's public relations work through a regularly updated public affairs policy and strategic plan which linked more directly to business needs. Chris encouraged community visits and founded a community newsletter, now in its seventh year.

He was a key player as the company's representative on the working group of the South East Pharmaceutical Industry Group and in 1994 produced a 40-year history of Pfizer at Sandwich. In 1999, he organised the company's 150th Anniversary family open days.

He is ending his Pfizer career by organising a reunion Folkestone employees to mark the 50th anniversary of Pfizer in the UK.