MARKET and product development manager Adrian Birmingham has been promoted to general sales manager at commercial flooring specialists Polyflor Ltd. Mr Birmingham, who is 40, lives in Bury.

He joined the Whitefield company as an export assistant in 1984 and moved into his previous job in 1992 after spells as export office manager, export regional sales manager and export sales and marketing manager.

He has a BA (Hons) degree in Spanish from Leeds University and began his career in the Patent Office of the Department of Trade and Industry in London.