MIDLANDS: Security specialist Yale has promoted Vicki Hawkes to the role of regional sales manager for the Midlands, Mid Wales and Lincolnshire, with responsibility for supporting merchant and retail customers.

STAFFORD: Adhesives and sealants manufacturer, Bostik, has expanded its marketing team with the appointment of Jon Griffiths to the role of marketing manager.

SWEDEN: Jarl Timber AB has appointed Kjell Gabrielsson as its new managing director.

SCUNTHORPE: Dave Pearson, Wickes store manager is climbing four volcanoes in Ecuador to raise money for Leukaemia Research.

RUNCORN: Alan Quick has joined software company, Progressive Solutions, as senior support analyst. His role is to make sure bisTrack users get the maximum benefit out of the software and to oversee the provision of appropriate business solutions as cost effectively as possible.

SYSTON: LAFARGE Aggregates & Concrete UK is looking to expand its share of the major projects market with the creation of a key new role.

ESHER: On Sunday 15 August 2010, Niall Geldard, national sales manager at Hansgrohe died tragically from a heart attack.

LONDON: Cembrit, the roof slate and cladding specialist, is pleased to welcome John Haycock to the position of regional sales manager for the Midlands.

BRADFORD: Atlas Cranes UK has announced the appointment of two new board directors to join Fil and Veronique Filipov.

IVYBRIDGE: Oil boiler specialists Firebird has appointed Graham Hardy as its new southern regional sales manager.

A 22-year-old London taxi christened 'Betsy' by Aco Water Management has, in the face of considerable mechanical, geographical and human obstacles, scooped top honours in the first-ever Keyline Monte Carlo Rally Challenge.

CAMBRIDGE: Ridgeons’ business development manager, Dave Jordan, has qualified as a BREEAM assessor licensed to carry out assessments under the Code for Sustainable Homes, making the firm one of the first builders merchants in the UK to gain true expert status in relation to the Code for Sustainable Homes.

SOUTHEND: Wolseley and Tesco maintenance staff entered into a partnership to participate in the 50-mile London to Southend charity cycle marathon.

BARNSLEY: Rob Hughes has joined the sales team at Yorkshire-based Naylor Drainage.

STOKE ON TRENT: Dunlop Adhesives has announced the appointment of a new national account manager and an assistant brand manager.

CHELTENHAM: Mira Showers, the UK manufacturer of showering products and accessories, has announced the appointment of Craig Baker to the position director of marketing – Kohler Mira.

WIGAN: IKO continues to invest and has appointed two new employees for its retail/merchant divisions.

LEEDS: JT, UK’s shower tray manufacturer, has completed a 12 month recruitment process to finalise its sales team with the appointment of Northern key accounts manager, Caroline Schofield.

CICHESTER: ATAG, the Dutch company famous for its technologically advanced built-in kitchen appliances exclusively available to the kitchen specialist, is pleased to welcome Gary Davey as its new UK sales manager.

WARWICK: At Baxi Commercial Division, Gary Stoddart has taken on the new role of LZC (Low Zero Carbon) application sales manager for the North, reporting directly to Yan Evans, technical director.

CREWE: Focus DIY has appointed former MFI marketeer Michael Greenhalgh as head of marketing.

WINCHESTER: David Quayle, the co-founder of DIY chain B&Q has left £4.4m in his will. Mr Quayle, who died in April, opened his first store in 1969 with brother-in-in-law Richard Block.