Forest Garden has appointed Chris Gaines as business manager for the company's garden centre customers.
Mr Gaines will be responsible for driving forward Forest Garden's offering to the garden centre market, as well as strengthening and developing existing customer relationships.

Director of sales Guy Best said: "The appointment of Chris to the new role of business manager is all part of our long term plan to further strengthen our account management team. In doing so we believe we will build an even more dedicated and driven management team, which is essential for helping to maintain long term and profitable relationships with our key customers."

The company has also appointed Will Timmis as business manager for the builders merchant sector.