'ickford heads BRS :ontract drive in West
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Sn a move to strengthen its tract hire business BRS stern has set up a new team which will
centrate on this work. :he team is headed by apany sales manager Gary :kford, who has spent his ire working life in
isport. He began his eer with his father's ilage business before !oming national sales nager for Marley Vehicle ising.
Reporting to Pickford are sales consultants, each Ii his own designated area. John Holman, sales asultant for the South West,
has worked for an established haulier in the region, but he joins BRS Western from a multinational electronics company where he specialised in marketing and selling micro business systems.
Terry Woodsford takes sales responsibility for Wales. Before joining BRS Western he was sales director of an engineering company making hydraulic presses, and sales and marketing director of a wine wholesale and retail company.
Roger Angell joins BRS Western from another member company of the National Freight Consortium — Roadline. His contract sales responsibility is in the Oxford area.
Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire are Elliot Lennick's sales area. Before joining BRS Western he was area sales manager for Systems Market Link — a direct marketing division of Austin Rover and Renault UK. His 15 years' involvement in the transport industry includes considerable experience of contract hire.
Finally, John Farley takes responsibility for contract sales in the Bristol, Avon and Somerset area. He joins the company after having worked in South Africa in the
telecommunications business.
With the help of the new contract sales personnel BRS Western hopes to consolidate its position as the fastestgrowing and most profitable company in the BRS group.
• National Carriers Contract Services has appointed Peter Gordon as a contracts manager based at its new Peterborough location. Gordon goes to Peterborough after two years at NCCS's Kings Cross depot, where he was responsible for the distribution of the Radio Times.
Part of Gordon's new responsibility is the company's contract to distribute Nestle food and drink products throughout East Anglia.