guy builds on a family tradition
Guy Armitage has been appointed as the IT manager of the award-winning York
Handmade Brick Company, based at Alne, near Easingwold.
Guy, aged 30, is the
sixth generation of the Armitage family to work in the brick industry, a record which
dates back to 1824. He joins his father David at York Handmade.
Educated at Edinburgh University, where he obtained a 2:1 in agricultural economics, Guy worked previously
as a business analyst for HBOS in Leeds.
He is a keen sportsman and was the senior cross-country winner at Radley College in Oxfordshire, where one of his
contemporaries was the England cricketer Andrew Strauss. He is also an accomplished point-to-point rider.
Guy married his
wife Lucy in December 2005 and the couple live in Harrogate.
David Armitage, the chairman of York Handmade, commented:
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Guy to a senior executive role in York Handmade. We have a young and
enthusiastic team here, which he can only strengthen.
The company, which has reintroduced the art of brick-making to the Vale of York, runs the most modern small brick-making factory
in Britain. It has a turnover in excess of £2 million a year and employs 28 local staff. It has also won a host of awards in the Brick
Development Associations awards, the Oscars of the brick industry.