James Thomas returns to Focus Label Machinery

Focus Label Machinery has announced that James Thomas will be rejoining the company as head of sales and business development.

Thomas worked for Focus as business development and marketing manager from 2016 and helped drive the growth of the company and the brand bringing in new business, partners and products during his four years there.

David Lee, director of Focus Label Machinery, said: ‘James has a wealth of industry knowledge, especially in digital print production, with a good business understanding he will be a great asset to the business, as he was previously. We are all absolutely delighted James is rejoining Focus and see his appointment as a fresh approach for the company.

‘Sadly, we say goodbye to Antony Cotton who is moving to pastures new. We thank Antony for his long service and dedication to the business and wish him well in the future.’

Thomas commented: ‘For me this is a wonderful opportunity to bring Focus and its brand back to pre-Covid levels. To have a UK manufacturer, manufacturing site and showroom all under one roof in the heart of the Midlands is a story worth telling. Focus has such a depth of skill, knowledge and ability to design and build bespoke, modular and application based printing and finishing equipment as well as supplying and supporting some great OEM products.

‘As a family run business, now into its third generation, the brand, although known worldwide, is still not as prominent in the minds of our future customers as it warrants, that is my job and I'm looking forward to continuing the project.’

Thomas will be handling distributor sales and customer demonstrations with Konica Minolta for the Accurio 230 & 400 lines as well as Focus finishing and hybrid equipment.