Graham Frazer, Deputy Chairman of the Meetings, Events and Communications Division of Grass Roots left the company on 31st December. He plans to continue working but at a less frantic pace. Graham has been with Grass Roots for nearly 18 years, previously as Vice President of Maritz Europa.

Nick Bender, Head of Global Events at Grass Roots commented on his departure: "Graham has many friends here at Grass Roots and indeed in our industry and all of us wish him well for the future."

In an internal staff announcement released this week Frazer said: "I have enjoyed a thoroughly interesting career and the top highlights for me have been arranging many of the largest ever global and European product launches and training events for up to 16,000 delegates, as well as some of the most extraordinary incentive programmes ever created.

These events have been not only very exciting and extremely challenging but they did put us in a completely different league from most of our European competitors."