10th May 2005 07:00
Delling Group PLC10 May 2005 Press Release 7:00am 10 May 2005 Delling Group Plc Board Appointment Delling Group Plc ("Delling Group" or "the Company"), the marketing servicesgroup, is pleased to announce that Michael Steven Hudgell has been appointedDirector of the Company, with effect from 1st July 2005. He will be responsiblefor marketing the Company's expansion into England, following its successfulincrease in sales and acquisitions in Scandinavia. Mr Hudgell (aged 48), has an extensive background in sales and marketing inNorth America with NASDAQ listed companies and in the UK with quoted companies.He joins Delling Group from Impatica Inc, an internet solutions company where,since December 2001, he has worked as Managing Director and built a UK team fordirect sales. This included helping raise initial working capital from privateUK investors when Impatica was a start-up. Prior to this, from January 2000until October 2001, Mike worked as Sales and Marketing Director for QSP Plc, anestablished Financial Applications and ASP Vendor, where he focused on Europeanand UK expansion. Before that, he was Director of Corporate Sales and Marketing for GreshamComputing Plc, the developer of software solutions. Mike has also worked atPerformance Software, an automated software testing company, as BusinessDevelopment Director and later as Group Marketing Director and he was UKMarketing Director for COGNOS. He entered the industry at Digital Equipment Cowhere he worked for eleven years, initially as UK Marketing Manager and then asEuropean Marketing Manager. There are no further details to be disclosed of Directorships or Partnershipsheld by Mr. Hudgell in any other company at any time in the previous five years.Furthermore, there are no further disclosures to be made according to schedule 2(f) of the Aim Rules. Commenting, Aksel Bratvedt, Chief Executive, said: "Mike has a wealth ofknowledge and experience. He has worked in sales and marketing for public andprivate companies in the IT industry for over 25 years and has assisted at boardlevel reporting to the CEOs, in strategy, brand development IPOs, cashgeneration and mergers and acquisitions. I am confident that he will, togetherwith our recently appointed Finance Director, strengthen the Company'sinfrastructure and capability. I look forward to working with him in continuingto achieve our goals of strong growth organically and through organic growth aswell as acquisitions in the UK, in addition to overseas markets, as DellingGroup expands its concept of providing a range of outsourced servicesgeographically." For further information contact: Delling Group Plc Aksel Bratvedt, Chief Executive Tel: 020 7010 8210 Mobile: 07766915245 Geir Lolleng, Chief Operating Officer Tel: 020 7010 8210 Mobile: +46 (0)708 55 67 27 Binns & Co PR LimitedPeter Binns Tel: 020 7153 1477 Mobile: 07768 392 582 Hannah Sloane Tel: 020 7153 1480 Mobile: 07855 084 713 Editors' Notes: Delling Group provides an outsourcing service to the marketing andcommunications departments of small, medium-sized and international corporates.This includes the outsourcing of media production and production management. Itis a UK registered company with most of its business currently in Scandinavia.Delling Group listed on AIM in October 2004 raising £2.2m at 14p per share. Delling Group comprises of four subsidiairies: Depicta, Depicta Fame, Azzets andButler Systems. Depicta Fame was acquired in October 2004. The company is the market leader inproduction of in-store advertising material and exhibition material in Norway. Azzets is a specialist provider of proprietary digital asset management softwaresolutions and services concentrated on the content management and marketresource management needs of large international enterprises. Butler Systems is a media IT company offering its own concept for delivering andmanaging content on plasma screens in retail stores, airports and exhibitioncentres. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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