Bob Ellis to Retire from MAN Roland

MAN Roland GB has announced that Bob Ellis is to officially retire from the company at the end of October 2005. Bob has been working on a part-time basis for the company for the last year, during which time he has been gradually handing over the role of Group Accounts Manager to colleague Malcolm Frost.

Bob’s career in print spans over 40 years, and began with an apprenticeship at the Cornwall Press. Following some interesting assignments as a production consultant, which took him to such exciting destinations as Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, Bob held senior sales positions with a number of leading equipment suppliers, including Oscar Friedheim and Openshaw’s, before arriving at MAN Roland.

It is in his role as director of sheet-fed sales at MAN Roland GB (formerly known as Pershke Price Services) that many in the industry will have met with Bob, and he is acknowledged by many in involved in print as a leading advisor on press innovations, developments, and productivity issues.

Mr Ellis says that he intends to remain active within the industry as an independent consultant. It is also rumoured that some colleagues and industry competitors have suggested that Bob might like to make use of his knowledge of Afghanistan and the middle-east region to help in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, but this suggestion cannot be verified!