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News Release from: Komori UK
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 February 2007
Komori's European Pioneer Retires In
March
Komori UK's chairman, Martin Rickards, has decided to retire on the completion of Komori's current financial year at the end of March.
Komori UK's chairman, Martin Rickards, has decided to retire on the completion of Komori's current financial year at the end of March During the last two years, he has been managing director of Komori International Netherlands and a board member of Komori International Europe, moving to that role when the European headquarters in Utrecht was assigned the responsibility for an enlarged territory
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 1 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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That area now includes central and eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Rickards' major role over that period has been to implement the expansion of Komori's northern European network, which now comprises 18 distributors.
Rickards started as managing director of Komori UK in 1991, moving from Harris Corporation, where he was managing director of the European bindery division.
Over his 35 years in the field of printing, he has enjoyed extensive influence across the industry, in his capacities on the Ipex management team for over 20 years, his two terms as chairman of Picon, his presidency of Ipex 1993 and his position on the APMI council, said the company.
Of his retirement, Rickards said: "I will greatly miss the industry that has provided me with such an interesting and rewarding career, but having worked away from home for the last 16 years, I am looking forward to reducing my golf handicap, contributing more of my time to charity work and keeping my garden in order." He added: "Komori is an excellent corporation with a superb development strategy, an excellent product range and high calibre personnel throughout the world and, naturally, I will miss such close contact with them and with all my friends in the industry." Neil Sutton, Komori UK's managing director since March 2006, commented: "Martin has been responsible not only for the continued strengthening of Komori in the UK and latterly across the rest of Europe but he has also helped many of us to develop our own careers at Komori. Request free introductory details about products from Komori UK ...
His leadership has been invaluable to the Komori Corporation and he leaves having created excellent management structures, developed for sustained growth across our entire European network.".
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