News in Brief – Thursday, February 21

ANDREW Earnshaw has taken over as chairman of the Mid-Yorkshire Branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), the world's leading professional marketing membership organisation.

Mr Earnshaw owns Up and Running Marketing in Huddersfield where his clients are a mix of start-ups, more mature SMEs and other organisations.

Originally in sales working for global organisations, Mr Earnshaw progressed to marketing consultancy via seven years of company ownership and a postgraduate degree in marketing at Sheffield Hallam University, where he now delivers CIM courses on behalf of Oxford College of Marketing to students of both the Professional Diploma in Marketing and the Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing.

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THE deal which will see Irish group Siteserv acquire Wakefield-based construction support services company Deborah Services for £48m is expected to be completed tomorrow.

The deal was passed at an extraordinary general meeting of AIM and Irish Stock Exchange-listed Siteserv, held at the Stillorgan Park Hotel in Dublin, yesterday.

Deborah Services has previously supplied scaffolding for work on Big Ben and the Forth Road Bridge.

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NORTH Eastern Tyre and Exhausts has opened its new £2.3m outlet in Knaresborough.

The outlet at St James's Retail Park, built by Meldrum Construction, will be managed by Richard Darcy and will be the first of the company's eight to carry the new name North Eastern Tyre and Autocare.

The new name has been chosen to reflect the growing number of autocare services available from the company, which launched 36 years ago as a tyre garage in Cleveland.

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AIRPORT Partners, part of Harrogate-based outdoor advertising company AdGroup, has announced a partnership with Northern Ireland-based Primair.

Both companies specialise in advertising campaigns at UK airports.

The agreement, which will see Airport Partners act as a UK mainland representative for Primair, has strengthened Airport Partners' portfolio of airports from 16 of 40 UK airports, to 18, following George Best Belfast City Airport and Londonderry City Airport's addition to the company's portfolio.

Andrew Walker, managing director of Airport Partners, said: “We are immensely proud of our association with Primair, as we feel that both organisations share common values; ambition, innovation and customer-focus. This will be the beginning of what we anticipate will be a productive and long-standing working relationship.”