Alan Cooke, sales director for business-to-business work at the Scarborough specialist catalogue printer, resigned after six years at the firm to join RR Donnelleys Amsterdam pre-media office as sales manager.

He was followed out by Edward Ryder, sales director for business-to-consumer, after Pindar decided not to offer him the role of sole sales director.

Mark Sneddon, managing director of Pindars main Eastfield site, said the firm had been looking to have a single sales director for some time and had been searching for around a month.

With Cook moving on it might have seemed that Ryder would automatically be given sole control over sales but, said Sneddon, we felt he wasnt ready to pick up that mantle so he decided that rather than hang on he would resign.

When people have been in a job for a certain number of years there comes a time when they think that they should be looking to something else, he added. We wish them both the very best. He did not know what plans Ryder had for the future.

Sneddon also said the firm was pretty comfortable that things were as they should be until it appointed a new sales director.

Sneddon took over as managing director of Pindars Eastfield site in the summer (PrintWeek, 7 August). He was previously commercial director.

Pindar is not the only major web offset printer looking for a new sales director, with Southernprint also on the hunt after Tony Ayles left to join St Ives Web.

Story by Gordon Carson