Farrell takes over

Specialist contractor Kershaw announced last week the appointment of a new non executive chairman to its board.

John Farrell, who has been a non-executive director with the Kershaw Group for the past four years, replaces outgoing Giles Bingley. Chief executive Bingley is relinquishing his post to conform with the Cadbury Code of Corporate Governance.

Farrell is confident about the Group's ability to maintain success and sustained growth. He said: "High quality service and workmanship have underpinned the company's recent development in what has been an extremely difficult market place. It is a credit to our management team that we have delivered such dramatic growth in sales under these circumstances."

Kershaw's turnover has doubled in the past three years to approximately œ30 million.

Apart from his involvement with Kershaw, Farrell is also non executive chairman for waste management service company, Caird Group, and a non executive director for the Barlo Group. He retired as joint md of Cape in 1992.