Back in 2011 Ransomes Jacobsen was assigned responsibility for the Asia Pacific region within the Jacobsen group and Alan Prickett was promoted from Sales Director, based in Ipswich, UK to the new role of Managing Director, Asia Pacific. He relocated to Singapore with his family and for the past three years has been instrumental in the company's successful expansion into the region.

Over the past 33 years, Alan has gained extensive experience in both the retail and manufacturing sectors of the grounds care industry. He joined the Jacobsen division of Textron UK in early 1997 after a sales career with Ransomes distributors P.A.Turney Ltd and E.T Breakwell Ltd. Following the merger of Ransomes and Jacobsen in 1998, he was appointed UK Branch Manager and was subsequently promoted to the role of UK Sales Manager and then Sales Director in late 2004.

Commenting on the appointment, David Withers, President of Jacobsen said, "Alan has done an excellent job for us out in Asia Pacific; in the past three years he and his team have significantly enhanced our distribution in the region and implemented our strategy of employing more customer facing people, resulting in higher sales volumes and greater customer satisfaction.

"His appointment also reinforces Textron's stated objective of identifying talent from within the business and providing long-term career opportunities. I'm absolutely delighted to see Alan return home and I have total confidence that he will take the business forward in the years to come."