Lasham departs for new challenges

Print Direct managing director Gary Lasham will leave the Stockport firm in July after completing the two-year service contract agreed when Wyndeham bought the company for 15.6m (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 27 July 2000).

He will be replaced by Alan Hodgson, a founder and former production director of Print Direct. I always intended just to stay on for the two years to manage the transition, said Lasham.

He has yet to finalise his plans, but said he would be seeking `new challenges and was already looking at several interesting options.