A familiar face to most, Richard Fry, has announced he’s stepping down as Marketing Director for Origin Amenity Solutions at the end of this month, after a successful career in the industry spanning 50 years.

He initially spent 10 years working in a sales environment with May & Baker, at the time a key supplier of agricultural / horticultural crop and turf protection chemicals, and was then appointed as its business manager to head up and invigorate the company’s small sports and recreational division, which he renamed M&B Environmental Products.

Over the next three and half years, the business became the UK’s most influential supplier of turf protection products, launching many original pesticides to the industry. He then spent a further three years managing the company’s national and international laboratory chemicals business and returned to the amenity industry and set up the marketing consultancy company, GreenLink Int, which worked with the likes of ICI, Toro, Jacobsen, Hardie, Farmura, Vitax, Supaturf, Aquatrols, Norsk Hydro, BSF, Milliken & Co, Top Green, BIGGA, BALI, STRI and many others.

He then undertook a consultancy role with Rigby Taylor.

Richard says he is working with a new team to ensure a successful transition, who are set to bring new ideas, energy and expertise to take the Origin Amenity Solutions (Rigby Taylor, Headland Amenity, Symbio and TurfKeeper.com) business forward, building upon the firm foundations and innovative approach to marketing that has been so much associated with Rigby Taylor’s industry presence over the past years.

“It has been a privilege directing Rigby Taylor’s marketing programme for so many years and more recently, the implementation and integration into the industry of the four Origin Amenity Solutions brands,” Richard begins.

“I have had the opportunity and fantastic experiences of working in marketing roles for and with some of the major amenity industry players (suppliers/distributors/associations and organisations) over the past decades and, seen at first hand the positive and exciting changes that have occurred within the industry over this time,” he concludes.

All at Turf Business wish Richard the best of luck going forward.