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FESTOOL GROWS THE TEAM IN PREPARATION FOR A BUSY 2018
Leading power tool manufacturer and BiKBBI sponsor, Festool, has grown its UK team as a response to increased sales over the past year and in readiness for an anticipated even busier 2018.
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last role as Contracts Area Sales Manager at SIG Group Carpet and Flooring, where he supplied flooring to contractors and end users including Bovis Homes and Vinci and Bam.
Seven new team members have recently joined its HQ in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk:
Jamie Bunting is now Logistics Team Leader and joins the Festool team after 13 years at Kuehne + Nagle where he ran a logistics team that supported the servicing of the MODs fleet of Apache helicopters.
Holly Hyde-Smith is the Marketing Communications Executive and brings with her a wealth of experience having previously been Marketing Manager for global SaaS company EMEA and part of the marketing team for the retail sector of a technology consultancy.
Two new starters have been taken on in the sales team: Martin Ive and Daryl HerbertSmith are new Territory Sales Managers. Daryl gained several years of experience at various flooring businesses including his Three new positions have been created in the Finance team too: Business Administrator Elaine Phillips, Olga Snitsarenko, Management Accountant Assistant, and Emma Butler, General Administration Assistant.
Festool’s Marketing Manager Jon Burcham commented: “Festool is widely acclaimed for its quality and innovation and its team that supports the cutting-edge technology is also, in my opinion, without rival. Festool has enjoyed incredible growth in the UK market and the new recruits with their market pedigree, bring impressive expertise to the company, we’re excited to continue expanding our market presence and look forward to an exciting 2018.”
LATEST PJH KITCHEN GRAPHICS LAUNCH ON ARTICAD-PRO SOFTWARE
ArtiCAD, the market leading CAD company who produces simple, fast and flexible kbb design software and online planning and patented styling tools; has announced that from January 2018, the latest products from the PJH Group, its K Kitchen and Virtu Kitchen ranges, are now available as a comprehensive graphics catalogue for designers who use ArtiCAD-Pro software.
PJH has been working with ArtiCAD as a CAD software supplier for a couple of years with the aim of ensuring that it is as easy as possible for its customers to choose from the PJH range and include the company’s products in their new kitchen designs.
Sally Hough, Marketing and Product Manager at PJH: “We have found it very easy to work with ArtiCAD on this latest project, and they have managed our catalogues well. It is important for us that designers can easily access realistic representations of our products, and ArtiCAD certainly ensures that they can produce very professional designs.”
Based in Bolton, Lancashire with distribution centres throughout the UK. PJH is one of the largest providers of kitchens, appliances and bathrooms in the UK, selling across the country to a diverse range of customers including large multi-site and independent retailers and builder’s merchants.
ArtiCAD's design software produces accurate working plans which automatically generate elevations, multiple 3D perspectives, photorealistic impressions, VR presentations, detailed parts lists and costings, all in less than ten minutes from scratch.
