The newly-created position is part of the company's plans to grow the business via acquisition and licensing of master recordings and music publishing rights.

The announcement follows recent additions to the board Paul Kinder (ex Chrysalis Music Publishing) who heads up the publishing company, and Robin Little as finance director.

Cokell says, "Over many years, the [Cooking Vinyl and Essential] business model has been proved to be totally viable and the company could not be better positioned to become the ...