Chris Ridout Email & Phone Number

Barrie, On, Ca

Ontario, Canada

In my current role as Gladiator Garageworks Senior Sales Manager, I am responsible for achieving growth and profitability targets with all national retail accounts.

Mississauga On

As the senior sales manager responsible for Lowe's and Costco (2012-2015) and Best Buy and HBC (2015-present) I was successful in driving significant growth, meeting or exceeding all targets, developing and implementing significant strategies to grow our partnerships with these retailers. In 2014 I was awarded Sales rep of the year from Whirlpool and in 2016 I was awarded Vendor of the Year from Best Buy.

Brampton

As the National Retail Sales Manager for Acco Brands Canada I lead our sales organization in its efforts to foster and grow our relationships with such retailers as Staples, Walmart, Target, Loblaw's, Zellers, London Drugs, Costco and Future Shop/Best Buy.

As a NAM I was responsible for all aspects of developing our relationship with Staples Canada. As a tier one vendor with Staples I came to know all of the critical aspects of growing my business with this major retailer.

In this position I was responsible for account management of Staples, Future Shop, Best Buy, Costco, Office Depot, Western Grocers (Loblaws), London Drugs, The Source and Radio Shack. I managed a small team of inside sales reps. I was involved in planning and implementation of national and retailer specific marketing programs, budget management and ROI analysis. I offered complete category management including product assortment, planogramming, promotional design and implementation, data analysis, launch and exit strategies.

In this position I managed relationships with Radio Shack, Costco, The Shopping Channel, Ingram Micro, Tech Data, Synnex, Dell, Azerty United. I got the opportunity to appear regularly on live television with the Shopping Channel demonstrating Canon products.I was responsible for cradle to grave management of product life cycle including all aspects of MDF and Coop budgets.

Pegasus was the distribution arm of Chapters. I joined the organization on startup.I was responsible for negotiating distribution contracts with all major retail software manufacturers, music and video distributors.

In this position I was responsible for designing and implementing marketing programs with the goal of increasing sales to our retail partners and through them to their customers. I represented all manner of software manufacturers as well as computer peripherals manufacturers.

In this positon I handled all aspects of sales to Computer City with a product catalogue of over 30,000 computer products.