Gary King of Bosch Lawn and Garden has been nominated Chairman of the OPE Council of the Agricultural Engineers Association and chaired his first meeting this week.

OPEC is the Outdoor Power Equipment Council of the AEA (the industry trade association) and comprises representatives from the major Companies in the sector.

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Gary is UK marketing manager of Bosch Lawn and Garden Limited which also encompasses Atco, Qualcast and Suffolk Punch brands.

The brands cover a wide spectrum of products with different power sources petrol, mains and cordless which are distributed through traditional gardening and DIY channels.

He commented: "The Outdoor power equipment industry is facing some interesting and challenging issues on differing power sources, and conformity standards on for example noise and I hope that we as a representative body can effectively tackle these."

(GK)