Ford Retail, Europe’s largest Ford dealer group, has appointed Leigh Mase as national sales manager to drive sales at its dedicated parts business, @first parts solutions.

Leigh previously worked for Volvo and the Advantage Group.

@first part solutions employs 400 people working at five parts distribution centres across the UK with a further six hubs and a fleet of 160 delivery vans.

The business has over £10 million of stock across 130,000 lines at any given time, and makes 2,500 deliveries to customers each day.