Experience

• 

  Self Employed

  • Business Consultant

    • 2013 - Present

    I have achieved a vast amount of business expertise and success over the last 43 years, I am able to offer my help to many different types of businesses. My specialities include negotiating on behalf of Clients, general problem solving and helping to improve sales.

• 

  Crown Eyeglass plc

  • Sales & Marketing Director

    • 1992 - 2013

    The Company originally comprised of stores run by franchisees and some Company-owned stores. I organised franchise exhibitions and recruited franchisees for the UK, Sweden and Spain. I found new premises for all the stores throughout the UK, Sweden and Spain. I negotiated the leases with the land...

• 

  Kitchens Direct

  • Manchester

  • Marketing Director

    • 1981 - 1992
    • Manchester

    I started out designing and selling kitchens in customers own homes for which I won several design awards and 'Best Sales' awards. I then became involved in helping train new recruits to the Company before I moved across into the Marketing Department where I became the Marketing Director ...

• 

  Various

  • Manchester

  • Travel Manager and Tour Operator

    • 1970 - 1981
    • Manchester

    I worked in the travel industry for eleven years and thoroughly enjoyed this time of my life. I originally started working for a tour operator, then moved to a major retail chain of travel agents. Latterly I opened a new branch of a travel agency that organised their own package tours as well as ...