SIMON Dawson has been appointed sales and marketing manager at Blackburn-based Partwell.

He joins the firm, which supplies specialist cutting equipment, from NBC Bearings.

Simon, from Stockport, will head up a team of six sales staff and oversee all the company's sales and marketing activities.

The firm supplies products including food cutting boards to the catering industry.

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