President And Founder
Berg Manufacturing And Sales Corporation
Northbook, Il
Created a start-up of a successful sales and manufacturing corporation.Directed all facets of new business development, sales / marketing, business line expansion, division acquisition, and team building / training.Exhibited in 14 Hardware, 12 Housewares, & 4 Automotive shows. Without using an exhibition company, designed & constructed all booths. Created a 60' award winning (2005 hardware show, LV) booth for less than $6000 that had interchangeable panels for The Housewares & Automotive shows. Established lucrative business relationships with high-profile retail customers such as OfficeMax; Bed, Bath & Beyond; Lowe’s; Pep Boys; O’Reilly; Sears; and Menards, as well as Family Dollar, ShopKo, Meijer, Grossmans, and Bi-Mart, among others.-Achieved $24 million in sales in 2006 while recruiting, training, and managing key staff.-Consistently expanded product lines, including offering popular WorkHorses and Ride-Up Ramps products.-Through product developments was enabled to get several patents to be issued. Furthermore have several pending.-Turned around division of Tuthill from attaining $400,000 and losing money to $2.2+ million and 50% gross.-Generated $1.1 million in Fiscal Year One, achieved $2.2 million in Year Two, and $4.4 million in Year Three, and so on without a down quarter in 14 years.-Led purchase team for several new warehouses to continually grow the business, including building all company molds, & mergers and acquisition activity-Built a fleet of 6 tractors & 27 53’ trailers to enable internal movement between our factory and warehouses, additionally pick up raw material from our vendors & delivery products to customers.