HAMPSHIRE publishing, training and marketing company Rowmark has appointed a Chichester company, Sum-mersdale, to handle the sales and distribution of the easy step-by-step guides series of business books into high street bookshops.

Rowmark was set up eight years ago as a marketing, media and training consultancy by Pauline Rowson. The company launched the Easy Step by Step Guides two years ago and currently has six titles in the series which cover topics in sales, marketing, management and finance.

Pauline Rowson said: "I branched into publishing after seeing that there was a need to provide business books that could be easily and quickly read.