Ross Barker, the senior trading manager for Michell Leather, is leaving to take up the position of sales manager with Balsim & Co Pty Ltd, a division of the Victor Smorgon Group. He will be concentrating chiefly on their Eastern European interests.

Company contacts for hide sales and hide purchasing will remain as follows: Karl Macaulay and Rebecca Cram for sales and Peter Heinrich, Greg Daly and Dean Gough for hide purchasing.