New MD for ATS Euromaster

ERJ staff report (BC)

Birmingham, UK – Ian Stuart is to retire at the end of May 2013 after seven years as group managing director of tire specialist ATS Euromaster. He will be replaced by Peter Allen, who is currently commercial director of Michelin Canada.

After joining Euromaster in 1993, Stuart spent three years as managing director of WS Tyremasters, at the time one of the UK’s largest tire wholesalers, followed by three years as a regional director in France. He then became Managing Director of Euromaster in northern Europe with responsibility for Holland and the Nordic countries prior to the appointment in his current role in Birmingham.

During the last three years Stuart has overseen a £14m (€16.4m) investment in the ATS Euromaster network, modernising facilities and extending into new areas of service, maintenance and repair.