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Vickers appointments
Two appointments have been made within the UK distribution of Bushnell and Tasco optics.
Paul Naptin, former Director of Marketing at the camouflage pattern licensing firm Realtree Europe,
has joined just weeks after fellow new recruit George Sinclair, with notable pedigree in the
photographic and optics industry.
Paul will take on the role of ‘Area Sales Manager’ for Vickers Sports Optics, presenting the
distributor’s binocular and riflescopes lines to retailers in the Midlands, South Wales and South West of
England.
George has an impressive career history in the photographic and optics industry that spans 26 years.
He joins Vickers Sports Optics as Area Sales Manager presenting Bushnell and Tasco binoculars to
retailers in North Wales and the North of England.
Jansport join
George and Paul are now in post and can be contacted directly on tel. 07917 115514 / email
gsinclair@jjvickers.co.uk and tel. 07919 486520 / email
pnaptin@jjvickers.co.uk respectively, or via
STAG
Vickers Sports Optics on tel. 01634 201284 / email
sales@jjvickers.co.uk. Jansport the Original Outdoor Gear Brand
have joined STAG to promote their range
Slazenger rolls out ball
through the 450 retailers in the group.
The Jansport range embodies a culture
bonanza
of fun and discovery with quality products
that are enduring, reliable and are widely
used in the outdoor and schools markets.
Lilywhites and Slazenger have teamed up to offer people the chance to Jansport have agreed preferential terms
win tickets for the Wimbledon 2010 men's final. The shop window of for STAG members and will exhibit at the
Lilywhites' Piccadilly Circus store was filled with tennis balls for the forthcoming STAG Buying Show in
duration of this year's tournament, with people encouraged to guess November.
how many balls were in the window. Entrants had to simply text their
guess to 84880 for their chance to win.
Sports
STAG Buying
Direct
Show Nov
profits
2009 is a sell
fall
out.
Sole UK Wholesaler for the Heavy Grips. Despite an increase in
sales, Sports Direct has
We can offer you: announced a full year
profit drop of over 90 per
• High quality aluminium handled hand grippers
cent. For the year up to
April 26, 2009, the
• Six levels of difficulty that will generate multiple sales as
customers move up through the levels of resistance
company made a £10.7m
profit, compared to
• Low minimum order and bulk discounts
£118.9m a year earlier.
The drop is attributed The STAG Buying Show Exhibition Space
• Attractive profit margins
to the weak pound and has sold out four months prior to the
investment losses. event.
• A true lifetime Total revenues saw a 70 Brands will be exhibiting at this years
warranty backing
rise to £1.37bn, up 9 per show to an audience of over 200 STAG
the product up
cent, but the company retailers
maintained it will not be Brands such as Puma, Reydon, Asics,
• Immediate
delivery from
paying a dividend but will Canterbury, Hi-Tec, MBT and Speedo will
stock
instead focus on cutting be exhibiting again alongside new STAG
its £430m debts. suppliers Jansport and Wilson who will be
Chief Executive Dave exhibiting for the first time.
Forsey said: "The second
half of the year remained
For more info and to get your free sample please email challenging, but we are
charles@ultimategrip.co.uk or call Charles Rinaldi on
pleased with these solid
0151 324 1195
full year results that reflect
the resilience and
www.ultimategrip.co.uk
relevance of our flexible
business model"
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