Pegasus World is delighted to announce the appointment of Robert Beaumont as our new External Communications Director. Robert, who is based at Boroughbridge, near York, is an award-winning journalist and PR consultant, as well as an accomplished author. Robert comes from a legal family. His father was a Crown Court Judge and his brother-in-law was a Court of Appeal Judge. After studying history at Oxford University, Robert won a Duke of Edinburgh scholarship to study law at the Inner Temple, but decided to follow a career in journalism instead. Ivan Zhou, CEO of Pegasus World, commented: “This is a significant appointment for us, as the company goes from strength to strength. I have worked with Robert, on and off, for the past five years and his help and advice have proved invaluable. He has an enviable network of contacts in the Yorkshire media and business world and beyond; he works swifty and effectively; and he has our best interests at heart and will always fight our corner.” Robert Beaumont added: “It is a great honour to work for a company as forward-thinking and successful as Pegasus World. Ivan Zhou is one of Yorkshire’s great entrepreneurs and it will be a pleasure to work along side him to ensure that Pegasus’s magnificent story is told truthfully and effectively.” During his career at the Yorkshire Evening Press (now the York Press), Robert was named the Yorkshire Feature Writer of the Year for a record four years in succession in the Yorkshire Newspaper Society awards and was honoured in a number of national journalism awards, including campaigning journalist of the year in 1992. He was also the paper’s restaurant critic, film critic, theatre critic, leader writer and assistant editor. He subsequently carved out a successful career in public relations, with clients including lawyers, accountants, property developers, property agents and manufacturers across the north of England. His two published books are Grandma, a portrait of the infamous heroine of Giles’s cartoons, and The Railway King, a biography of George Hudson, the founder of the modern UK railway network.

We were delighted to welcome a team from the Johnson Service Group to Curo House earlier this month (May). The Group which supplies our textiles to hotels and restaurants across the UK, is one of our most valued and trusted partners. We were very proud to show them around our Leeds base and to talk them through how our smooth operation works, from the moment their order is received until it is dispatched. We discussed potential new business and new services and how we can tackle the opportunities and the challenges of the future together. It was a tremendously positive visit and it was exciting to confirm that we shared the same values of quality, trust and reliability, all underpinned by a personal approach.  Our sustainability agendas also coincide, as we both strive to meet our clients’ needs with superior, eco-friendly products and much less waste. Together, with collaboration and innovation, we aim to be “green” leaders in the textile services sector.