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Southern Trident National Sales Team Hits the Road
High quality coir product company Southern Trident Ltd, has recruited a team of salespeople to cover the UK, aiming to develop the business’ presence in garden centres. The team of 9 hit the road in the New Year with shipments for the new season. ...
15 January 2021
Virtual rep visits from The Bransford Webbs Plant Company
The Bransford Webbs Plant Company wants to support its customers in every way possible during this difficult and unprecedented time. During this most recent lockdown period, its reps are unable to travel around the country to visit centres and meet ...
14 January 2021
Team changes at Hozelock
After over 25 years with Hozelock, Head of UK Sales, Peter Martin is retiring from the leading gardening business.In the three decades since he joined the business as a Senior National Accounts Manager, having previously worked at Fiskars for twenty ...
17 December 2020
Tony Robson scoops ‘Sales Agent of the Year’ award in record-breaking year for Garland Products
It is record breaking time at Garland Products where Tony Robson (picture attached) scooped the ‘Sales Agent of the Year’ award for the third time, during a year when the company has already achieved an unprecedented £2 million sales growth. Tony ...
15 December 2020
AMES UK appoint a new Managing Director
AMES UK appointed Paul North to the role of Managing Director for their UK and Ireland business in early 2020, but within 3 weeks of starting his new role, Paul faced the monumental challenges of a global pandemic and a national lockdown. Despite ...
14 December 2020
Haskins promotes Andrew Harriss to Buying Director
Andrew Harriss, who has worked at Haskins Garden Centres for over 14 years, will join the Board of Directors as buying director. Harriss joined the company in 2006 as buyer's assistant and has spent his career with the Ferndown-based busines, ...
6 December 2020
Samsung bolsters its climate solutions team with two new appointments
Samsung has welcomed Barry Hunt and Joe Stiles as sales managers to its growing Climate Solutions team.Barry HuntHunt has been in the air conditioning industry for 15 years, starting at Mitsubishi Electric as a pre-sales technical engineer before ...
6 December 2020
New Manufacturing Director for What More UK: Rob Walker
Leading Lancashire housewares manufacturer, What More UK, has announced the appointment of a new Director of Manufacturing, Mr Rob Walker.Mr Walker joined What More UK in 2014 as Manufacturing Manager. Six years later he's overseen some big projects ...
9 November 2020
Sonica appoints Eamonn Kelly as HR Manager
Sonica, the leading construction company, has appointed Eamonn Kelly as Human Resources Manager. In this new role with Sonica, Eamonn will work closely with department heads throughout the business to design, support and implement HR strategies, ...
9 November 2020
Bucking the trend: What More UK is recruiting new staff
East Lancashire housewares manufacturer What More UK is looking to take on an extra six members of staff in addition to the 35 already recruited since lockdown began. The housewares manufacturer, What More UK, proves that it's not all doom and gloom ...
4 November 2020
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