Heather Thompson has joined Leeds-based AMT Group, which specialises in providing vehicle rentals and contract hire and leasing options, as marketing manager.

Previously, marketing manager at Imexpart - Thompson has almost 20 years’ worth of marketing experience.

At AMT she will head up a new internal marketing department and her time will be split looking after the AMT group companies: rental, contract hire and leasing and specialist car sales.

Neil McGawley, managing director of AMT Group, said: "She has a wealth of marketing knowledge and the expertise needed to help us drive forward with our ambitious expansion plans."

He continued: “In 2015 we’re focussing on growth and development and our plans are well underway. In March, we moved our head office to a new 50,000 square foot site in Leeds, this gives us the added opportunity to expand to our specialist retail sales facility and the much needed extra space for our increasing numbers of staff. Plus, we’re shortly opening a seventh rental depot in Manchester.

“And, we’re well on the way to relocating our Enfield and Bristol rental premises to larger more prestigious sites, which will further expand our nationwide coverage.”