Jeff Forwood

Global Manufacturer of Hand Made Rugs produced in India for Worldwide market. Built and managed alliances and relationships with national accounts driving growth with exclusive, custom or direct import designs and collaborated with US and India design teams in planning and executing product releases for trade shows and special projects. * Developed web-based reports for sales representatives to track trends and actual sales by dealer and developed a plan to drive sales at dealer locations where sales wer

Manufacturer of Machine and Hand Made Rugs with sales exceeding $25M Successfully drove sales maintaining the top status within the region and company for both revenue and percentage of increase and maintained over 150 Sphinx dealerships * Produced first year Sales increases of 35% over budget from previous year partially through pro-active attention to dealers in planning and executing sales events and promotions. * Planned, developed and executed all sales training with dealers and sales associates

Major Global Producer of Carpet Products with annual revenues exceeding $8B Territory Manager: Karastan & Mohawk Select Area Rugs Given additional responsibilities to sell Mohawk carpets in addition to selling Karastan to dealers and other entities when Mohawk sales were lagging. Maintained top 5 status nationwide both during transition and thereafter. * Developed relationships with new channels as well as existing customers that produced sales growth exceed 15% from previous year and built and mainta

Manufacturers Rep Firm in Home Décor and Gift Industries Build, motivate and lead a team of 15 independent contractors as sales support, to drive sales and explore new business opportunities. Overall sales volume increased from $9.5 million to $14million through direct liaison with 50+ manufacturers.

Global Gift Card & Gift Corporation with revenues exceeding $800M Managed 135 retail stores that generated $120M in revenues and analyzed store and chain past performance to enhance all store procedures and policies reducing annual expenditures and increasing Sales. * Developed, planned, purchased and implemented everyday and seasonal product lines as well as pricing strategies. * Monitored performance through forecasting and overall business evaluations as well as performance versus plan to ident