BLACKBURN marketing firm MDA has kicked off the New Year by announcing a number of new appointments and the expansion of its warehousing.

MDA sources and distributes marketing support for many of the UK's biggest brands including Cadbury and Coca Cola.

The most senior appointment at the firm is David Parsons, 47, as operations director.

David takes over responsibility for MDA's Operations team of around 100 people, based in three warehouse facilities.

The operations department is responsible for putting marketing programmes into action, handling around 2,000 orders every day.

Also new in David Parsons' team are Ian Whitehouse, outbound sector manager and Martin Proud, goods-in section manager.