It is recruiting additional production managers following the reorganisation of the companys activities into three departments studio, packaging and commercial.
Studio will handle artwork, packaging its packaging repro work, and commercial will do the repro it carries out for the BBC and Argos.
The business has grown so much in the past couple of years, said managing director Mick Tooley. All our problems have been handling whats going on, but thats a nice problem to have.
Kestrel has also added to its sales and business development team in order to secure further packaging work.
Graphic Facilities group sales director Ian Hageman has left the company after 10 years.
He remains within the industry and will reveal the details of his new venture soon.
I wanted to move on. Im still young enough to do something else, I needed a change, explained Hageman.
He retains a stake in Graphics.
The firm has yet to appoint his successor.
Story by Barney Cox
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