15 Years Ago - from May 1995
Boatmark launch gets a welcome
The British Marine Industries Federation (BMIF) appointed HPI Equifax – well known in the car trade – to run the Boatmark boat identification scheme.
What a great idea this was. And what a pity it turned out to be a bit of a flop.
London loses a day, Southampton gets a weekend
Press Day at London was moved from Wednesday to the Thursday to maintain the momentum which the preview generated, but which seemed to fall falt when the Thursday intervened.
That Thursday would later disappear to give us the Friday Press Day.
Southampton retained the format of two full weekends.
David Barrow joined Ancasta Boat Sales as operations director, Ann Lythgoe joined Henri Lloyd as customer service manager, Emma Parkin was promoted to information office at the BMIF, Patrick Coote joined the BMIF as projects manager on Boatmark, Charles Rose was appointed chief executive of Geografix
