John Kurth Email & Phone Number

The Meridian Group is a confidential peer-to-peer advisory council for leaders, owners, CEOs, and presidents of companies in all stages of growth and development. Since 1993 members have benefited from the collective wisdom and experience of the group, gaining in-depth insights and guidance, business prosperity and growth, improved performance, and.

• General responsibilities included profitability improvement, sales, marketing, finance, operations, human resources and product development.
• Improved sales productivity by 97% as a result of creating empowered work groups and implementing quality programs.
• Achieved record profitability and revenues, turning a deficit operation to profitability by 141%.
• Built a driven organization ~ promoting 38% of staff to greater responsibilities and reducing employee turnover from 89% to 15%.
• Successfully launched twelve new product family introductions, quadrupling previous year's production.

London, GB

• Restored division profitability, improving profit 27%.
• Implemented consolidation program of four independent companies into two operating units, resulting in employee productivity improvement of 40%.
• Initiated cost control program and redeployment of resources, reducing operating expenditures by 19%.
• Instituted performance measurement systems to promote accountability and total quality management.

• Increased results from 78% to 129% of sales revenue plan.
• Streamlined operations by consolidating branch offices, resulting in centralized resource allocation and fiscal savings of $1.2MM.
• Grew international revenues to 52% from 39% of worldwide corporate contribution.

• Took a substandard, five state region to "Region Of The Year" while increasing profitability.
• Grew a $109.3MM business by $5.8MM, resulting in 105% performance of revenue goal and expense reduction of 39%.
• Nurturer of champions ~ promoted 25% of management team to greater responsibilities.

• Led a last place region to "Region Of The Year", setting new standards of excellence by achieving 143% of sales goal while increasing base revenue by 18%.

Norwalk, Connecticut, US

• Concurrently held the positions of Product Launch Manager, Sales Trainee Supervisor, Major Account Specialist and Competitive Product Strategist.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics And Business Administration With A Management Concentration And Minor In Psychology.

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