Darren Spencer, who joined Countax more than 25 years ago, is to return to the UK to take up the post of European Manager for Ariens Company. He effectively replaces Lasse Jonassen who was previously Managing Director of Ariens Europe who has left the company. .

Darren will be responsible for the overall management of the Countax and Ariens Scandinavia businesses and will spend much of his time based at Great Haseley. He was previously Operations Director at Countax but recently has been in Australia as National Sales and Marketing Manager for Ariens Australia.

Massimo Caner, International Sales Manager, will assume responsibility for overall sales and relationships with UK dealers and will report directly to John Horn, Vice President of Global Sales.

Steve Campbell, UK Sales Manager, along with the Area Sales Managers will report into Massimo Caner.

Ariens say that the new structure will re-focus the business on the individual requirements of each country.