All change at auction mart

9:05am Wednesday 14th May 2008

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CRAVEN Cattle Marts (CCM) has made four key appointments at Skipton Auction Mart.

Ted Ogden joins as farmstock sales manager and auctioneer, and Andrew Wright as mart foreman.

In addition, Anthony Hewetson and Les Thackray have been appointed to the CCM Board to fill vacancies left by the untimely deaths last year of chairman Anthony Dean and fellow director Alan Pratt.

Ted Ogden, 32, was born and bred on the family farm at Owlet Hall, Austwick, and gained his first taste of livestock markets through work experience at both Skipton and Preston marts in his teens.

His first job was part-time at Clitheroe Auction Mart in 1994 and he became a full-time trainee auctioneer there in 1996, before qualifying and taking over the gavel in his own right when joining the team at Kirkby Stephen and Lazonby marts in Cumbria.

Ted began working as a livestock auctioneer and broker for Carlisle-based Harrison and Hetherington in 2002 when the company took over the running of PF&K's marts at Kirkby Stephen, Lazonby, Middleton-in-Teesdale and St John's Chapel. He also managed the day-to-day sales at Kirkby Stephen and Lazonby.

He and his wife Rachel - the couple have a four-year-old son Angus and daughter Ruby, two - are currently planning a move from Long Marton, near Appleby, back to their Craven roots in Settle, where Ted plays rugby with North Ribblesdale RUFC.

Ted brings the sales team at Skipton up to its full complement, also including general manager, company secretary and senior auctioneer Jeremy Eaton, long-serving John Hanson and part-time relief auctioneer, sheep and beef farmer David Wood, of Rivington, Bolton, who continues to strengthen CCM's contacts in the north-west.