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• ESAB's welding robotics and cutting machine business is being combined in the UK under a new general manager, Bo Lindberg, a senior ESAB manager from Sweden. This is part of a review of business strategy, involving the creation of a capital equipment division, with one result the relocation of the UK sales office and welding engineering department from Stevenage to Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, this June.
ESAB's UK capital equipment organisation will be established in new premises in Andover, Hampshire, which will incorporate a mechanised welding centre. ESAB Hancock Cutting Machines will move there in August.
• Mike Thompson, 26, has moved from the National Freight Consortium to become branch manager, BRS Dunstable, which provides the BRS standard 24-hour emergency breakdown and maintenance service besides truck rental, engineering and contract hire.
• Stephen Hawker, who was UK dealer budget coordinator for Esso Petroleum, is now major accounts executive for the oil branch of Nixdorf Computer's special projects division. He is responsible for the initiation of business in the oil industry for Nixdorf s forecourt automation equipment.
• Martyn Gent, promoted sales manager for fuel management firm Tr-Scan, based in Blackburn, says;. "This is an exciting time with major technical developments extending our market coverage." Gent was national contracts manager
dealing with firms such as British Gas, British Telecom and Shell.
• John Neill, group chief executive of the Unipart Group, is to head a team of industrialists to be appointed by Business in the Community to promote more purchasing from small firms by helping them compete for business.
11 David Betteley, 34, whi started in the finance industr as a trainee in 1975, is now thi general manager of just forme' I M Finance, set up by thi newly named I M Groui (formerly International Motors in the West Midlands in con junction with UDT. The nev firm provides specially tailorei financial arrangements for deal ers and customers.