Craig takes over the marketing reins at Morris Lubricants

Britain’s leading family-owned, independent oil blenders and marketers Morris Lubricants has appointed a new marketing manager to support the company’s continued growth in the UK and worldwide.

Craig Bastable, 30, from Dudley, said he was attracted by the new challenge of working for well respected, Shrewsbury-based company, which has a global customer base.

He joins the company after spending eight years in business to business marketing with leading industrial distribution companies Brammer plc, Wolverhampton and Hayley Group plc, Halesowen. Specialising in direct, digital and strategic marketing he has developed and implemented many commercially successful initiatives for a host of well-known international brands.

A member for the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Craig is a graduate of Wolverhampton University and is currently working towards a Masters degree in marketing.

“I have joined the company at an exciting time as it looks to push forward,” he said. “My role will be to help the company achieve its growth and profitability targets, to identify new markets both in the UK and worldwide and to develop the Morris Lubricants brand.

“It’s a strong, international business with great potential that is well respected in the sector yet is not too big to recognise the individual contribution of every member of staff, which I think is important.”

Employing 140 staff, Morris Lubricants is the UK's leading independent supplier and manufacturer of specialist oil based lubricants and associated products that are used across a variety of industry sectors, including automotive, agriculture and industrial.