Gary: Central to the Development of Several Multi-National Consumer Products

Gary has been central to the development of a number of multi-national consumer products through his retail, consultancy, ecommerce, training, and start-up experience.

• Interim sales & marketing director for Grey Archer, a Nomura funded B2B ecommerce start-up for the leisure industry.
• Developed and implemented the business plan and recruited, trained, and developed the sales and marketing team.
• Set up first marketing department for Burton McCall, with clear roles and responsibilities with specific brand budgets.
• At Littlewoods' scratch-card division was responsible for the sales and marketing of a A$73 million turnover operation.
• Obtained broad distribution for the business across the impulse sector.
• Instrumental in the acquisition of Littlewoods' key competitor, UKCL, and integrating the two businesses.
• At Marston's he created two new divisions, the Take Home sector business and an International business unit to handle exports.
• Developed Tesco and Victoria Wine 'own brand' ranges of bottled beers.
• Appointed and managed distributors in Sweden, Italy, France, Russia, Canada and the United States.
• At Kenner Parker (Hasbro) grew the Parker Games divisions' turnover by 43% in 2 years.
• Personally developed the Argos and Woolworth accounts.