BCA’s sales director, Mark Hankey, is to leave the company in 2013 and emigrate to Australia, where he will work for rival auction firm Manheim.

Hankey has worked for BCA for over 20 years. The firm’s managing director, Andrew Hulme, said: “Mark will fulfil his commitments and work with us well into the new year to ensure an orderly transition and in the meantime, it is business as usual.

“Mark has been a terrific asset to BCA over the past 20 years and his fellow directors and colleagues around the company wish him and Sue all the very best in their new life Down Under.”

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