Gardman has appointed Mark Portman as group sales director to take responsibility for all sales across independent, national and International customers. He joins from Henkel where he was general manager for the UK responsible for sales and marketing. Prior to this he held senior sales roles at Premier Foods.

“I am thrilled to welcome a candidate of Mark’s calibre to the Gardman business at such an exciting time,” said CEO Pete Utting. “We are looking forward to him improving our overall commercial capability and developing strategic customer relationships to generate further category growth.”