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RL Automotive Strengthens Management Team
Phil Sanders has joined as Marketing Manager following 11 years with Hi-Q and Goodyear. Part of his brief will be to expand RL's e-commerce activity. Phil Thirsk is now National Sales Manager. He has extensive sales expertise in the transport aftermarket, previously working for Goodyear and Bandag. At RL his main priorities are to expand the company's customer base and increase service levels through CRM practices. The new appointments are pictured with the rest of RL Automotive's management team (left to right: Phil Thirsk, Isla Grey, Nick Radclyffe, Mark Longden and Phil Sanders) Specialist wire manufacturer ROMWIRE Ltd has merged its industrial wire manufacturing facilities from ROM Group's Lichfield headquarters, into 12.5 acre premises in Kidderminster. ROMWIRE Ltd, part of the ROM Group, secured 180 jobs at Kidderminster after purchasing the assets of specialist wire manufacturer NS (Eurowire) from administrative receivers in June. The Kidderminster premises continue to provide the niche wire products traditionally produced on the site, in addition to manufacturing industrial wire which was previously supplied from ROMWIRE at Lichfield. ROMWIRE report that the new site will provide it with a global production base enabling it to substantially widen its future markets. Exide Announces New Customer Service Initiative Exide Technologies has completed a programme of investment at its UK Customer Service Centre. The company has expanded its facilities at the Manchester-based centre as part of the latest phase of Recharging Exide, a global initiative aimed at improving customer care, product quality and performance. The expansion means a customer's call is now automatically routed to his dedicated Exide sales representative. According to Exide, customers can now place orders, check on deliveries, get answers to technical queries and receive up-to-the-minute product information and promotions from their own appointed representative. Exide's investment in its customer service centre has coincided with a reorganisation of its national sales operation. ROMWIRE Secures Polish Contract ROMWIRE Ltd has secured at £115, 000 contract for the final quarter of this year, supplying beadwire to a leading European tyre manufacturer. Weekly deliveries of 20 tonnes of beadwire have already started leaving ROMWIRE Kidderminster to a Polish plant, within a week of the order being placed. |
As
part of their planned expansion within both the UK and European vehicle
aftermarkets RL Automotive have added two new appointments to their
management team.