Chris Driver Email & Phone Number

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

As a companion company to Windfall Brands, Windfall Partners (est 2020) works with emerging and SME brands to help them build and grow. With over 20 years of FMCG experience we have already created exponential growth for our clients. In the past we have lead major CPG successes with £100m plus brands such as Pepsi, Schwarzkopf and Cathedral City to name but 3.We continue to maintain and build strong major retailer relationships in Grocery and High Street and have a plethora of strong senior category contacts.If you are looking to start, build or grow your brand in major retail please feel free to contact us - we’d love to talk through your brand aspirations and synergise your brand needs with our expertise.

Established in 1996, Windfall Brands are a respected UK sales agency with a track record of helping build new, emerging and established brands across the UK On and Off Trade, Food-service, Grocery, Health and Well-being, High Street and Cash and Carry channels. A sales team first and foremost, we take pride in our strategic approach to new business acquisition and account management, working collaboratively with you, the brand-owner, to build a brand capable of sustained success & category-leadership. Our team of industry sales and trade marketing experts have broad-based experience drawn from SME to Blue Chip multi nationals with one common trait: the ability to deliver Whether you are looking to launch, build, or step-change the performance of your brand, our strong, long-standing customer relationships with high-profile national and regional end customers (and their routes-to-market) will provide the platform for success.

Woking

Following contact from a former colleague I took up the role at Acosta developing international brokerage. Acosta is one of the largest sales and marketing organisations in North America with a turnover of over £2bn.

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

A former colleague approached me for a move back into Britvic to take on a fantastic opportunity leading a central team of three, responsible for half of Britvic’s £1.3bn turnover. The role required a high level of cross functional stakeholder management, I was ultimately responsible for the long term implementation of our price, promotion and execution plans culminating leading monthly Management Board meetings with the Brand Director.

Field Based

As Account Director I lead a team of five direct reports, including Category and Shopper. We had responsibility for Sainsbury’s, managing a portfolio of branded products including; Cathedral City, Clover, Davidstow and FRijj worth £150m+. As a strong cross functional team we delivered significant improvements to existing distribution alongside multiple price increases during a time of high cost pressures.

Field Based

I was responsible for two of the largest Licensed customers in the UK and one of the big four grocery retailers. Leading a cross-functional team I helped delivered a 3 year contract extension to one of our biggest Ontrade accounts.

Field Based

NAM for brand and own label products.

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NAM Graduate program

2:1, Bsc Management

Education record