Nigel Brown Email & Phone Number

Marseille, Fr

Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France

Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote D'Azur, France

Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France

Working part-time, assisting Home Hunts in the sale of Premium property on the coast between Toulon and Saint-Tropez

Ghemme (No) Italy

Responsible for group strategy and the commercial activities of the four businesses of the group, Francoli Distillerie, La Valdôtaine, Torraccia del Piantavigna and Francoli Energia. Initiated a restructuring of the main Company Francoli into business units, reviewed the portfolio and marketing, restructured the sales organisation of 40 mono-carte and 60 multi-carte salesmen and initiated a review of the logistics, including total review of product portfolio and packaging. Returned the group to double-digit growth after a long difficult period.

Piemonte Area, Italy

Shareholder and Managing Director of this highly rated exceptional winery in North Piemonte. See website: www.torracciadelpiantavigna.it

Aix-En-Provence Area, France

Partner and joint Managing Director in a cosmetics Company specializing in Sports cosmetics with the licenses for toiletries, cosmetics and perfumes for all the major French and UK football and rugby clubs. Licences included, PSG, OM, OL, Bordeaux, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea.

Aix-En-Provence Area, France

Moved to France for family reasons. Consulting for several Italian Companies whilst searching for the right local acquisition.

Carribean And East Coast Of The Usa

Sold the Italian business and left for one year sailing from Antibes in France to the Caribbean, then slowly North as far as Canada with my wife and six year old daughter. The best year of my life.

Bologna, Italy

Specializing in Food and Drinks marketing, assisting Italian Companies with their business strategy, marketing and international development, the business developed to include assisting foreign Companies on market entry and product launch in Italy. In 1998 added Food from Britain to the business, the official, privatised consultancy for the UK food and drink industry. The business started as a one man show and finished with a staff of six and consulting revenues of 1 Million Euros. Italian clients included: Montenegro, D&C, Baratti e Milano &Umberto Cesari. Other clients included, Kraft, Geest, Diageo and hundreds of smaller Companies

Bologna Area, Italy

Fantastic job, kickstarting some great brands and getting them moving internationally. With an enthusiastic team, we doubled turnover in three years, taking weighted distribution in duty free worldwide from 5% to 45% and dramatically increasing profitability and unit sales value. The Company was taken over by IDV (Grand Metropolitan) and I was responsible for the integration of the business into their local subsiduary, Cinzano. In addition was also appointed Managing Director of Fratelli Rinaldi Importatori, distributor of fine wines and imported spirits, the year before the takeover.

Genova, Italy

Country Director responsible for the management of the total italian business with a turnover of approx. £70m. This included the acquisition a distribution company and the integration of the business into the group structure. Brands distributed included Johnnie Walker, Gordon's, Bacardi and many other leading spirits.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for a team of 6 Area Managers and a turn-over of approx. £25M. This was an interesting transition phase after the Guinness takeover when the group moved from being organized around brand owning Companies to a regional structure.

London

Promotion to head office in central coordination role in Europe, with shared responsibility for group distribution strategy and specific responsibility for all bulk and private label sales.

London

Area Manager responsible for brand development and distribution in Europe of Sanderson's brands including Vat 69.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for parts of Africa for this major whisky brand

London, United Kingdom

Trading in Consumer goods in Eastern Europe

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for sales in Africa and Eastern Europe.

Cultural correspondent for the Belgian International radio service

Teaching English at Nancy University and working on English language programs for FR3 radio and television

Pmd, Business

3 month on-campus programme designed to give single discipline managers the skills to become general managers. Amazing programme led.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), European Studies