John Richards
Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920
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Objective: To obtain a position where I can utilize my varied business
experience
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Holman Label Company 1969 - 2003
Outside Sales Representative
Sales Manager
Vice President of Sales
General Manager/Plant Operations
President-Lead and drove the company to realizing growth &
substantial
cost savings while realizing efficiencies in the achievement of the
organizations Business Growth Strategy
Conceived & developed innovative approaches to
designing/articulating/
organizing new initiatives, building staff, implementing new process
ideas
and introduced new programs to grow the company
Sir Speedy Print Center/Axiam Printing 2004 - 2005
Outside Sales/New Business Development-Traditional outside sales
position
where I utilized many marketing skills to generate a profitable sales
territory
for the company and myself. This was a new territory and, thus, the
following
skills had to be employed cold calling, telephone sales, prospecting
in order
to obtain new accounts. In addition,with existing customers, I had
to develop
relationships in order to retain business and penetrate the account
for additional
business
Lizard Label 2005 - Present
Account Representative-Hired to develop prime label accounts for a
newly
formed company producing pressure sensitive labels printed up to
seven colors.
Starting from zero dollars-able to build volume to a high of
$1,200,000 building relationships and broadening the account base