LANCASHIRE: Jon Dingoor is Crown Paints’ commercial manager for export and licensing.

He will be responsible for developing overseas sales and forging licensing agreements for the company's key decorative coatings brands which include Crown, Sandtex, Macpherson, Permoglaze and Berger.

Mr Dingoor is no newcomer to Crown Paints and its product range. For 19 years he worked in various senior sales and marketing roles roles for Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings, Crown's parent company until August 2008,  when a management buyout supported by Endless LLP transformed the UK subsidiary into the country’s largest independent paint manufacturing company.