Deborah Comery Email and Phone Number

Building strong relationships across Foodservice providers within Education and Healthcare to drive sales of our cost effective, healthy fruit pots. A perfect meal time dessert, time saving, 1 of your 5 a day and built around the complexities for this sector. Working part time with this dynamic forward thinking SME.

Planned career break with my Husband, travelling through Europe and North Amerca.

• Creating a strategic plan to open new sectors presenting to the board and gaining funding.• Executing strategic plans to open up the foodservice sector- 3663 listings for Schools (LACA) and hospitals, Bestway/Batleys, Blakemore's, Compass, NHS Supply chain, Olympic Foods, Stirling Super Group, Country Range, Thomas Ridley, Booker- Executing strategic plans to open up the Airline & Leisure sector -Gate Gourmet, En Route, Bourne Leisure• New projects created incremental turnover of £1.2m within 2 years.• Account management and building portfolios with Tesco, Tesco Ireland, Co-op and Booths.Initially employed on a 3 day week contract, which moved to 4 days after the initial 3 months. After 18 months I became a permanent employee.

• 2nd largest account portfolio - Holland & Barrett, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons with prior responsibility for JS, Waitrose and Numark Wholesale/Rowlands Pharmacies (portfolio £3.9m)• Growth in every sector adding 1.7m to portfolio via new listings and increased distribution• Increasing profitability by better palletisation, transportation and training projects• Successfully negotiating price increases and advertising budgets to increase sales and profitability• Mentoring and coaching junior staff members, furthering their careers in National Account ManagementInitially employed as a NAM and promoted to SNAM within 2 years.

• Responsible for a large number of accounts in Foodservice, Discounters & Convenience (£2.9m)• Specifically brought in to drive new business to increase Whitworths brand exposure in the impulse snacking arena – new routes to market included Sodexo, Compass, Brakes, Odeon cinemas, Lloyds & Wilkinsons. Portofolio increased by c£800k.

Building business with Somerfield, Waitrose, Co-op, MBL, Netto, Aldi & LidlAs part of Fox's Biscuits (previously Elkes)