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Meet The Team

Meet the team

Yorkshire Packaging is a family company at heart, founded by chairman David Johnson and currently under the directorship of his son-daughter team, Glyn and Rachel Johnson. Completing the board of directors are Josh Gibson, Jonny Braithwaite and Pat McHale.

David Johnson

Chairman

David has chalked up more than fifty years of experience in the packaging sector. He worked for a machine business and then a shrink film specialist in the early days before setting up YPS in 1977. As our chairman, David still actively oversees all the goings-on at YPS and keeps a firm handle on industry changes to make sure the business is always innovating and leading the way.

Glyn Johnson

Managing Director
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For our managing director Glyn, the pull of the family business was always strong. While studying for his Business degree, Glyn joined the team in a sales support and administration role, working at YPS throughout his final year at university. With a natural aptitude for sales and a passion for great customer service, he never left, going on to work his way up through the business to the role of managing director, which he took on in 2008.

Rachel Johnson

Operations Director
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Rachel joined the family firm in 2004, focussing and excelling at shrink film sales for several successful years. Rachel later swapped the road for our head office, taking on the multifunctional role of operations director in 2013. A typical day sees Rachel managing our HR, looking after our finances and overseeing our busy engineering department. Despite her workload, she still presides over one of our key shrink film customer accounts.

Jonny Braithwaite

Sales Director
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Jonny joined YPS as our first graduate trainee during 2011 and was promoted to sales director just four years later. Day-to-day he focuses on a wide scope of activities including account management, business strategy and product development, but specialises in technical sales for both machinery and films.

Josh Gibson

Sales Director
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Josh joined our shrink film division in January 2015, following the successes and rapid growth of the department under Jonny’s leadership. It didn’t take long for him to learn all about heat shrink films, with a particular focus on printed film and films for the food industry. Josh’s dedication, enthusiasm and success in shrink film sales culminated in his directorship appointment in March 2019.

Pat McHale

Engineering Director
Joining the team during 2018, Pat quickly became the lynch pin of our engineering department, with promotion to our Board taking place during 2024. Pat’s responsibilities involve the daily overseeing of our engineer’s activities both on-site and in our workshop, organising the commissioning of new machinery, routine service visits, operator training sessions and machine refurbishment projects.

Our story so far…

Over our almost fifty year history, we’ve grown to become the UK’s leading distributor – with that comes unrivalled expertise. Go back in time with us and see how we’ve grown at YPS since we launched back in 1977.

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