Entatech poaches Northamber staff for southern push
Distributor confirms new Leatherhead office will be manned by Dominic Hoskins and four other former Northamber employees
Distributor Entatech has confirmed that its newly opened southern office will be manned by a breakaway gang of five staff from rival Northamber.
CRN heard last month that a handful of Northamber employees had handed in their notice to help Telford-based Entatech set up an outpost to service southern clients.
The new office, which is in Leatherhead, opens for business this week, the distributor confirmed today.
It will be manned by five staff, all of whom Entatech said have moved from a "competing distributor" - which a cursary glance at LinkedIn confirms is indeed Northamber.
The operation will be headed up by sales office manager Dominic Hoskins (pictured above, second from left), who had worked at Northamber as Microsoft business manager for three years.
Meanwhile Stewart Honeywill (pictured, below), who had been at Northamber since 1995, has been appointed as business development manager.
The breakaway quintet is completed by David Smith, Oliver Moorby and Dritan Smith (pictured above from left to right, flanking Hoskins), who will work as product specialists focusing primarily on Fujitsu and Microsoft products.
Entatech stressed the southern office is just part of a wider expansion that has seen it enlist 10 new sales and purchasing staff at its head office since January and add 3,000 pallet spaces at its warehouse via a £1m investment.
Jon Atherton, Entatech vice president, said: "Entatech has continued to go from strength to strength each year and as we have grown internally - in terms of vendors and customers - it was a natural step for us to expand on a national scale. We have a fantastic new team to support the establishment and growth of our new office and I am confident that this is just one of many fantastic things to come for Entatech in 2013."
Hoskins added: "We cannot wait to get stuck in and hope we can make the new office just as successful as the operations in Telford."