Mitchell Salberg Email & Phone Number

Southern California

Principal, background and voiceover work in television, movies and internet.

Southern California

Trained Home Depot Employees and serviced customer questions on all SMG Products.

Excel Garden Products/Central Garden, Santa Fe Springs, CA A national distributor and manufacturer with 13 locations. Excel Garden services national chains, garden centers, hardware stores, growers and landscape accounts. Annual sales in 2008 were 1.7 billion dollars. The Santa Fe Springs location carries over 15,000 different lawn and garden products. Key Account Manager• Managed all aspects of six key accounts in California, Arizona and Nevada with over $6… Show more Excel Garden Products/Central Garden, Santa Fe Springs, CA A national distributor and manufacturer with 13 locations. Excel Garden services national chains, garden centers, hardware stores, growers and landscape accounts. Annual sales in 2008 were 1.7 billion dollars. The Santa Fe Springs location carries over 15,000 different lawn and garden products. Key Account Manager• Managed all aspects of six key accounts in California, Arizona and Nevada with over $6 million in sales. • Responsible for listings, pricing, plan-o-grams, promotional planners, resets and product knowledge meetings for each account.• Worked with Manufacturers to acquire advertisement monies for key accounts. Managed over $350,000 in advertisement money.• Organized all aspects of key account, corporate and regional shows.Key Accomplishments:• Initially managed three key accounts in Southern California. Due to success, expanded to six key accounts. • Responsible for the #1 store of Excel Garden Products. Sales increased from $800,000 in 2006 to $1 million in 2008. Increased listing from 2,500 items to over 3,500 items in 2008. • Increased listings of Central Garden branded products in each account by a minimum of 25% each year.• #2 in sales nationwide of Bayer Advanced products for 2008.• #1 booth at the 2008 All American Spring Home & Garden Show. Show less

Spectrum Brands, St. Louis, MO A national manufacturer of lawn and garden products. Spectrum Brands supplied products directly and through distribution. Annual sales in 2005 were 600 million dollars. Western Region Account Manager• Managed all distributors that carried Spectrum Brands products in the Western United States. Represented over $12 million in sales… Show more Spectrum Brands, St. Louis, MO A national manufacturer of lawn and garden products. Spectrum Brands supplied products directly and through distribution. Annual sales in 2005 were 600 million dollars. Western Region Account Manager• Managed all distributors that carried Spectrum Brands products in the Western United States. Represented over $12 million in sales. • Worked with Key Accounts and Key Account Managers on listings, advertisement, promotions, plan-o-grams and resets. Hosted product knowledge meetings for Distributors and Key Accounts.• Organized and managed Spectrum Brands booths at key account, distributor and national shows.Key Accomplishments:• Increased listings on branded products by 50% for the three years at Spectrum Brands.• In 2000, introduced the New Bayer Advanced line to the Western United States. Through cold calling sales for the first year of Bayer Advanced products were over $1 million. In 2002, sales were over $3 million, which represented a 300% increase in sales over 2 years.• Through cold calling, Bandini Fertilizer business grew in assigned territory from zero to over 125 accounts and $1.6 million in sales.• Best of Department Award at the 2003 Orchard Supply How-To-Fair.Presentations and Publications:• Guest speaker for several years at the Orchard Supply How-To-Fairs.• Guest Speaker at the Armstrong Garden Centers Product Knowledge Show.• Guest Speaker at the Santa Barbara Garden Improvement Show.Bayer/Purcell Industries, Birmingham, AL(Purcell acquired by Spectrum Brands end of 2002)Western Region Account ManagerBandini Fertilizer Company, Los Angeles, CA (Bandini acquired by Purcell Industries in 1999) Show less

Spectrum Brands acquired Purcell Industries in the end 2002. Bayer split off form Purcell.• Worked with Distributors on sales into their warehouses. Represented over $9 million in sales.• In 2000 introduced the new Bayer Advanced line to the Western United States. Sales for the first year were over $1 million. In 2002, sales of Bayer Advanced products were over $3 million.• Worked with Key Accounts and Key Account Managers on listings, advertisement, promotions and… Show more Spectrum Brands acquired Purcell Industries in the end 2002. Bayer split off form Purcell.• Worked with Distributors on sales into their warehouses. Represented over $9 million in sales.• In 2000 introduced the new Bayer Advanced line to the Western United States. Sales for the first year were over $1 million. In 2002, sales of Bayer Advanced products were over $3 million.• Worked with Key Accounts and Key Account Managers on listings, advertisement, promotions and plan-o-grams.• Managed two Bayer/Purcell representatives in the Western Region.• Organized and managed Bayer/Purcell booths at key account, distributor and national shows. Show less

Purcell acquired Bandini in January 1999.• In charge of sales, developing new accounts, credits and displays. Managed accounts from the Ventura County line up to San Luis Obispo. Also covered the West Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills region. Managed region from 1985 to 1999.• Grew territory from zero business sales to over 125 accounts and $1.6 million in sales.

Voiceover

Finished professional voiceover classes.

Level 1 And Two, Commercial Acting Class

Finished clases on Commercial Auditions.

Ba, Geography And Geology

Activities and Societies: SIGMA NU FRATERNITY, PAST PRESIDENT OF CALIF. ASSOC. OF NURSERY PROFESSIONALS CHANNEL ISLANDS CHAPTER.