Bennett Elias Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Extremely grateful to be working with the amazing Team at Fruit of the Loom, Jerzees Apparel & Russell Athletic. The combined offerings from this versatile group of companies are a tremendous lineup of jersey knit, athletic fashion and ridiculously comfortable fleece garments for all branded apparel and promotional product needs.

Los Angeles, California

Reported to the Chief Sales Officer at Next Level Apparel, a privately held company with over $500M in annual revenue.• Increased outside direct sales in total units shipped, revenue generated and margin gains with new and key existing accounts across the territory: AZ, CO, UT, Southern California. • Worked with Distributor teams on product and sales training throughout the territory, including in the UK with our partners, Pencarrie Ltd. • Trade Show Lead trained the direct sales teams for the numerous trade shows attended annually. Worked with regional distribution partner’s sales team to continually train and improve in all phases of our product presentations and customer interactions.• Territory exceeded quota and goals each year, growing over 25% during the time.

San Diego, California

Helped drive sales and new business at DesignStudio.com, a boutique creative agency developing a new freelance network for the gig economy leveraging @designstucio.com email, office and marketing services.• Worked across a large range of companies to help increase sales and strengthen their brands through professional web development, data analytics, nimble online marketing programs using measurable ROI across all digital platforms.• Trained independent distributor teams to better value their franchise by representing their online business with the same care as their physical operations.• Increased revenue grew over 30% during tenure.

West Coast Usa

Promoted growth of LAT brands (~$70M) through direct sales into independent brands, gift, resort, pro/collegiate license and new, emerging online markets.• Cultivated and solidified strong direct and distributor relationships over five western states including: AZ, CA, HI, NV, UT.• Managed and assisted multiple teams of wholesale distributor sales reps to in the West: Alpha Broder, S&S, Mission Imprintables, SLC Activewear, TSC, McCreary’s, to strengthen their sales.• Rebuilt the atrophied direct legacy account relationships, secured over 20 direct new clients and business opportunities for a growing national apparel brand.• Increased direct and distributor sales by 16% while in the territory.

Southern California

Alstyle Apparel was a large vertical knit manufacturer (~$250M) selling blank knit wear into the action sports, street, music and retail industries.• Managed and aggressively grew a mature account base in four southwestern states: AZ, SoCal, NV, UT and Baja California.• Responsible for cultivating and increasing sales growth in product units, sales dollars and overall territory margin with new and existing customer accounts.• Multiple Salesperson of the Year Award winner (2006, 2011).• Consistently recognized by the company over numerous years for continuous growth in new customer accounts, annually increasing a large volume territory by dollars and units sold while maintaining high territory margins on total product sales. • Territory sales grew over 225% during tenure.

Duluth, Ga

Delta Apparel (~$200M) is a large vertical knit mill producing a range of tee shirt and fleece styles for direct sales to the retail, sports, music, fashion and promotional products industries. • Joined a growing public apparel brand opening their first West Coast DC and quickly helped expand the regional account base and direct customer business.• West Coast DC exceed all sales and growth projections in first two years accelerating the plans for a third DC to open in New Jersey.• Helped drive tremendous growth exceeding 70% in four southwestern states: AZ, SoCal, CO, UT for the territory overall in new customer acquisitions, total units sold, brand awareness across a wide spectrum of customers and product offerings.• Territory grew from less than $1MM to over $12MM in four years. • Winner of multiple company national sales contests.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)

Indonesia, International Relations And Cultural Affairs

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