He said: "I look forward to joining the team at BGP who I believe to be the best invested printing group in the UK, and taking my career on to the next level."

Maxted has been in the industry since he was 16. As well as achieve a City & Guilds in machine printing at Leeds Polytechnic, he has held posts at Polestar, Quebecor World, Artisan Press and St Ives.

His most recent post was key account director with the retail sales team at Polestar, where he worked with new media as well as heat set web offset and gravure.