BCA sales director Mark Hankey will leave the company in January 2013 to join Manheim's business in Australia.

Hankey has been with BCA for more than 20 years.

BCA managing director Andrew Hulme said: "Hankey will fulfil his commitments and work with us well into the New Year to ensure an orderly transition and in the meantime, it is business as usual.

"Hankey has been a terrific asset to BCA over the past 20 years and his fellow directors and colleagues around the company wish him all the very best."