Vehicle downtimeBalfour News digestBeattyThames WaterCar RecruitmentreviewsPeople newsNew fleet and remarketing director at MazdaSteve Jelliss has been appointed fleet and remarketing director at Mazda Motors UK after six years as after-sales director. He succeeds Peter Allibon who is now sales director.Read more...Oades to serve second term as FTA PresidentStewart Oades has been re-elected for a second two-year term as pres-ident of the Freight Transport Asso-ciation. Oades, who is a director of Palmer and Harvey and a trustee of international development charity Transaid, has more than 30 years' experience.Read more...New fleet sales director at VauxhallVauxhall has restructured its fleet team, appointing James Taylor as fleet sales director and creating a new role for Maurice Howkins. Taylor has been at Vauxhall for almost 12 years. He takes over from Howkins who is now fleet sales customer relation-ship director.Read more...Peugeot appoints new marketing directorMorgan Lecoupeur has been appointed director of marketing for Peugeot UK, replacing Christian Stein. Morgan takes up his position this month and will report to managing director Jon Goodman.Read more...SMMT appoints commercial vehicledevelopment managerThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has appointed Nigel Base as commercial vehicle devel-opment manager. Base was previ-ously aftermarket director at a premium truck manufacturer. Read more...Nissan appoints new fleet sales directorNissan Motor (GB) has promoted Barry Beeston to sales director, replacing Andy Woodall who recently left the company. Beeston joined Nissan in 1991.Read more...Mercedes-Benz appoints new presidentMarcus Breitschwerdt is the new president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz UK. He has moved from Mercedes-Benz Canada and takes over from Wilfried Steffen, who is moving to head of Daimler's Busi-ness Innovation Division in Stuttgart.Read more...International role for Alphabet's Mark SinclairMark Sinclair, who has led car leasing and management company Alphabet in the UK since 2007, is taking up a new role with Alphabet. Based in Munich, he will be co- ordinating Alphabet International's ambitious international development plan.Read more...