Derek Morgan is back in print as the new managing director of CTD. He has joined ex-White Dove recruit Mark Shields who has taken up the post of sales director at the Twickenham-based report and accounts printer.
Morgan replaces retiring Graham Tanner, who sold the business in February to share registrar, IRG. He has stayed on in an ad hoc consultancy role.
Morgans recent history is peppered with disappointment. He lost his job with Macdermott & Chant Group when it fell into administrative receivership at the tail end of 1998, and repeated the experience again last year as managing director of Pillans & Wilsons financial printing subsidiary FPC Greenaway.
"It was the quality of CTD that made me stay in print," said Morgan, who had been considering other options since his departure from FPC Greenaway. "This is a really excellent business with high quality staff and product. Theres an opportunity to invest and develop."
Mark Shields left his job as sales director at White Dove in April along with chief executive Richard Owers. He said the timing was a coincidence. "Its not every day you get approached by a leading printer in the reports market. It was too good an opportunity to pass up," he explained.
Another White Dove employee, salesman Mark Pitman, has left the company. He started as a sales executive at Beacon Press in Uckfield earlier this month. White Dove was unavailable to comment on plans to replace him.
Story by Anthony Clark