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PaperCo managing director Alistair Gough has been made president of The National Association of Paper Merchants (NAPM), the only accredited tradeassociation for paper and board merchants.

Gough has been in his current role at The Paper Company for four years.

Headquartered in south-east London, the firm is part of paper merchant group PaperlinX.

Gough said: “While the industry faces many challenges, it also has many opportunities.

“I hope that during my period as president, the NAPM will continue to support the development and progression of its member companies and their employees to achieve even greater success in the future.”

Gough takes over from Ian George, who has been president for the past two years.
The NAPM’s annual dinner was held last Thursday in Kensington, London.

Gough said George had been very active as president in smoothing over some of the “troubled waters” the NAPM sometimes experiences between its members.

Gough joined the industry in 1980 as a technical trainee within the Robert Horne Group. His role as president has been previously held by PaperlinX’s Toby Marchant and ex-Antalis UK managing director Henry Cubbon.

The NAPM president serves for a normal term of two years, with the previous president supporting for the first year and a new president elect supporting during
the second.