People: Commercial property group hires raft of directors and business consultancy expands into North Yorkshire

Commercial property agents PPH Commercial have made a round of senior appointments in the Hull team.

Ben Cooper has become a divisional director, having spent 10 years with the firm dealing with sales and lettings in the office and industrial space. He qualified as a RICS chartered surveyor a year after joining the company.

Dan Birkinshaw, who became a chartered surveyor in 2014, Tom Bell, who joined the team nine years ago and Matthew Penrose have been appointed associate directors.

PPH director Ben Medhurst said: “We are delighted to be able to promote these members of our team. It’s a reward for their hard work, success and development within the company. All four of them started as graduate surveyors and became professionally qualified with us. We look forward to their further development within the organisation.”

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Business support consultancy ABL Business are expanding their operations into North Yorkshire with the appointment of Fraser Irvine.

Irvine, an experienced commercial finance broker, will be ABL’s appointed representative to be based in Harrogate and cover the county.

He will assist SMEs in raising the funds they need to trade, grow or stabilise their business, using all the funding lines and capabilities of ABL Business.

It marks the third recent growth for the Cleckheaton-based company, who recently set up a new office in Scotland with two representatives just over a year ago and expanded into the North East region in March this year.

He said: “I have known ABL Business and its owners, Andy Redman and Alex Beardsley for many years and really like the independent and client-focussed approach they adopt, so I’m very excited that I’m now joining the team.

“ABL Business has access to a vast range of funders, which means I will benefit from being able to offer clients financial solutions that are tailored to bespoke needs. I am keen to help clients from new starts to multi-million turnover businesses to grow and achieve their full potential.”

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