BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Bibby Financial Services has appointed Bill Craft to vice president of sales for the Central and Northern Florida region.

Craft brings to Bibby more than 30 years of experience in business development, sales and customer service. Working with both mid-size and international corporations, Craft has worked in various fields, including automotive services, commercial printing and photography, hospital and clinical sales, dentals sales, long-term care, hospitality sales, wholesale brokerage, retail grocery and drug sales and services, financial services (securities broker), insurance sales and equipment

His former employers include Standard Textile, Safety-Kleen, Prudential, Roundy's Foods and Super Foods.

"Bill has an excellent reputation for working with businesses to find solutions for their working capital needs, and we are very happy in his joining our team in Florida," said Trevor Patching, chief executive officer of Bibby Financial Services Holdings, Inc. "With our strong presence in Florida, this valuable addition gives us a very impressive team working with small to medium-sized businesses locally."

The Group has in recent years embarked on an aggressive growth strategy driven by a unique business model of autonomous companies, designed to ensure it delivers a market leading service to its clients.

"Having the backing of the Boynton Beach-based business and the enthusiasm they have with working with their clients left me in no doubt that Bibby was the right fit for myself and the businesses I work with," said Craft. "Bibby has the resources and products to help a lot of local businesses with their working capital needs, and I am looking forward to presenting the Bibby products to them."

About Bibby Financial Services

Bibby Financial Services is wholly owned by the Bibby Line Group, a business-to-business services group with interests in ship owning and operation, shallow water accommodation, oil field services, contract logistics and business finance.

Bibby Financial Services specializes in the provision of finance to small and medium sized enterprises across a wide range of industry sectors. Operating via a global network of 25 autonomous operating companies in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Australia the group purchased more than $6 billion dollars of receivables and had more than 6,500 clients worldwide. Bibby Financial Services is the largest non-bank owned receivables finance company in the United Kingdom.

For more information on Bibby Financial Services, visit http://www.bibbyusa.com/ For more information on The Bibby Line Group of Companies, visit http://www.bibbygroup.co.uk/. http://www.bibbytf.com/ http://www.bibbyfinancialservices.com/

Source: Bibby Financial Services