Dexel Tyre Appoints Gary Bird as MD

Dexel Tyre Co Ltd has appointed Gary Bird as its new managing director. In his new position Bird will have responsibility for overseeing the company’s thirteen tyre sites. Bird joined the Dexel group from ATS some five years ago, initially to run City Tyre Experts. Paul France, the retiring managing director will assume the role of chairman. The former managing director said he “welcomes the opportunity of taking things easier, after fifteen years at the helm.”