News in brief: Wednesday February 6

JOY MEDIA, a new start business based at the Leeds Met Business Incubator, has launched an advertising platform that allows businesses to raise awareness and helps students save money.

The company is launching the initiative to Leeds Met University students.

The service allows adverts to be printed on the back of the photocopy paper which is slightly thicker than normal which prevent adverts shining through to the other side.

Joy Media believes the initiative is both environmentally friendly and reduces leafleting among students by using the other side of the paper for free photocopying.

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LEEDS-BASED Better Placed Recruitment, the specialist sales and marketing recruitment consultancy, has appointed Paul Bendelow to head up its new executive search and selection division.

A former Welsh international water polo player, Mr Bendelow previously held senior positions in Leeds and London with consultancies such as EMR Group and Imprint Search and Selection.

BPR's new division Better Placed Executive will focus on retained search and selection briefs for senior sales and marketing executives in the salary bracket £60,000 to £200,000, across all business sectors, from financial services and fmcg to commercial and industrial.

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MUNROE K has appointed commercial property agent Jones Lang LaSalle to the White Rose Office Park in Leeds.

Jeff Pearey, head of Jones Lang LaSalle's office agency team in Leeds, joins existing agents Adam Cockroft of DTZ and Guy Cooke of Knight Frank who have marketed the scheme over the last six years.

The scheme presently houses more than 5,200 employees boasting high profile tenants including international companies such as 02, HSBC, WSP, DuPuy and Sodexho.

Munroe K has a £200m portfolio of properties throughout the UK and Italy.

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LEEDS-BASED East Rigton Properties has unveiled a new 30,000 square feet warehousing and light industrial facility in Louth, Lincolnshire.

Called 'Castleway' the site is situated off the main roundabout leading to the popular and well-established Fairfield Industrial Estate on the A16 to the North West of Louth. The six units have recently undergone an extensive refurbishment programme and four are now available for sale or to let, with the remaining two already let and sold.