Kevin Hansel Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Wholesale / Retail Management Executive. More than twenty years of wholesale and retail leadership in buying, creating, selling, and international sourcing. Successful executive with results in creating sales and increasing margins through advantageous buying, product expertise, innovative product creation and development, and expansive and effective international sourcing. Discerning leader in recognizing, developing, and successfully promoting team members and engaging customers with great customer service.

Rhode Island

• Created and sold $3,500,000 of table linen and decorative pillow products to new retailer clients during significant period of transitional cutbacks from existing retailer business, sustaining division's market for eventual division consolidation.• Worked hand-in-hand with retailer clients to create private label business, including Windham Weavers, Bess Home Fashion, and Natco Soft Impression brands, becoming a "go-to" expert in private label table linens.• Created and expanded products, markets, international factory suppliers, product sources, and vendor partnerships, providing cost savings and additional quality and delivery control.

Houston, Texas Area

• Wholesale sales of women's scarves, handbags, and accessories through permanent showrooms in the Atlanta and Dallas Market Centers, providing great customer service to over 500 retailers.• Created all products. Sourced products internationally. Established warehouse operations.

• Directed home textiles, rugs, toys, food, party supplies, books, clothing & scrubs, and women's accessories, and started new product lines in register aisle sales, bedding, bath, area rugs, and Window (soft and hard), which increased sales and increased net margin.• Developed domestic and international sources to create better price points and increase margins.• Recruited, mentored, trained, and developed top team members, resulting in promotions of team members to buyers and divisional merchandising managers.

• Led my division to a five-fold business increase during this tenure.• Innovated the design, forecasting, logistics, sourcing, sales, and marketing of Natco's Table Linen and Decorative Pillow Division, expanding our product line to include kitchen textiles. Created promotional Window curtain line along with window top treatments.• Created and established international factories, joint ventures, and partnerships, providing cost savings and additional quality and delivery control.• Built entire division team to include, design, logistics, inventory control and sales.

• Increased sales, margin, and turn every season.• Created the rug department at Garden Ridge.• Began as Dec Pillow and accent rug buyer. My responsibilities grew as I helped introduce bedding, bath, window (soft and hard), utility bedding, and area rugs.• Developed international partners in my buying area and began directly importing many of these products.• Developed staff members who were promoted to successful buyers

Buyer - Home Textiles, Mattresses, TV/VCR