BARRY Bleasdale has been appointed sales and marketing director at flexible packaging manufacturer Skymark.
He previously held the same role at Pulse Flexible Packaging and has 30 years’ experience in flexible packaging sales and sales management roles, including 13 years as sales director for Printpack’s European business prior to its sale to Pulse.
Barry described the move as an “exciting opportunity”. He added, “The business is very well invested with excellent film extrusion, print and lamination capabilities. Skymark has a great reputation for quality, service and technical competence providing the basis to serve both the food and non-food sectors. The additional investment programme initiated in 2017, to be delivered this year, extends our capabilities further and provides a tremendous opportunity for Skymark to enhance our customer and product base to help achieve our growth ambitions.”
Skymark director Paul Neath commented, “We’re thrilled to have Barry on board. A sales director of his calibre is critical to driving our growth strategy. We’ve made significant investments in our operations in recent months and are excited about the opportunities that are open to us in a wide range of existing and new markets. Barry has the technical and commercial expertise to deliver our plans and we’re looking forward to working with him.”
