Peter Smit Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam

Heading the preparation and launch of Broadview's first retail project (Musa Kitchen Hub) in Stockholm, Sweden.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Founded and launched furniture design brand and concept KILO (kilo.nl). Dutch design furniture, no screws or glue assembly, locally designed and produced, fully configurable.
• Opened flagship KILO retail store in Amsterdam's Jordaan district, offering a unique retail experience by producing all items within the workshop on store premise.
• Launched KILO.nl, comprehensive online showroom and webshop with 3d front-end configurators that are fully integrated into the automated CNC production process.
• Online and offline direct-to-consumer sales focus, with select additional business to business points of sale (eg Stedelijk Museum)
• Grew business from scratch to 1m +

Amsterdam

- Succesfully built and headed wholesale operations department for Varova Fashion's Shared Service Centre (SSC).- Merged teams of 7 Dutch wholesale fashion brands into a single SSC, including the departments Customer Service, IT, Sales Support, Warehousing and Logistics/Transport. Includes offices in 7 countries. - Developed and launched b2b sales app and.

Amsterdam

- professionalized/modernized warehousing- created company wide process planning; from design through returns built international sales support team; grew international reorder business by 150%- significantly reduced costs of transport and shipping

New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto

- Set up company sales showrooms in Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles and New York- Set up company back offices in Toronto and Los Angeles- Set up external warehousing in Montreal and New Jersey- Grew North American business by 500% in 4 years as compared to previous distributor/agency setup.- Set up direct import from Asia/Eastern Europe to North America.