Terry Bevan Email & Phone Number

Cuckfield, Gb

West Sussex,Uk

Ugliduck is my flagship company.Its values reflect everything I have learned from nearly 50 years work in business and social enterprise on the challenges to successful outcomes. It is focussed on supporting individuals meet their aspirations.The name deliberately highlights my interest in helping people in businesses and charitable groups where there are challenges to their development. No one needs to 'get out of town', as the old Ugly Duck jingle goes. We all have to confront the challenges that limit our ability to meet our aspirations.

Australia

West Sussex, England, United Kingdom

West Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Haywards Heath, West Sussex

Starting RDS was the watershed moment in my career. Heidrich and Struggles had approached me to be Marketing Director Singer Corporation Europe in Brussels. Instead I decided to launch out on my own.Research, Develop, Sell are the key words which produce the acronym title of this consultancy. It sums up my experience in business and goes back to the early lessons that I learned in Unilever.The consultancy was my break from working as an employee into a more independent position. Since starting RDS I have worked with a range of blue chip consumer goods companies and developed business as far afield as Japan as well as investing in a manufacturing business which supplied accessories to companies like Marks and Spencer, JLP and Next in the UK. The manufacturing business failed ultimately but the experience taught me many lessons.

West Sussex, United Kingdom

TBR provides critical information to organisations seeking to understand and improve performance whether they have geographic or market responsibilities. It has crucial value added for anyone wanting to understand relative performance and future opportunity.TBR owns a unique longitudinal database of the performance of UK businesses which is partly drawn from Dun & Bradstreet data. Terry works with other data sources in other countries.He was instrumental in developing understanding of the economic impact of the Night Time Economy and since 2009 has completed several major Night Time economy projects beginning with a major research study for the Lord Mayor of Sydney and more recently for the Lord Mayors Capital Cities Committee in Australia and in the UK in key local economies such as Westminster (ongoing work),Lambeth and in a study which developed a vision for the future of Stratford Old Town after the 2012 Olympics.

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Chair of Board of Trustees for a charitable Trust delivering both day school and care services to children with emotional and behavioural difficulties and to their families and carers.More recently a specialist Childrens Care Home has been built and added to its range of services for children with a wide range of difficulties that cause them to disassociate from what society would expect of young people. We ignore these children at a great cost and to label them as 'uncontrollable' suggests that the labeller makes an early visit to see what is achieved by the children and staff at Talbot House through a professional but truly child centred philosophy.I resigned from the Trustee board in February 2014 to seek a wider influence with those who either label, ignore or only purport to set policy that helps these children and young people.

Northumberland

Corporately Guinness was all over the place at the time that I took on this Consumer Products challenge. Several others candidates had turned the job down as a bridge too far.I could only see the challenge at the time. It worked out well at first and I began to think I could walk on water. Things did not continue like that but this is the place that I learned some of my most valuable lessons at work.

Joined Wilkinson as a marketing manager Terry quickly rose through the ranks to be appointed General Manager of the Italian subsidiary operating from Milan. This brought many benefits including learning his language of preference and Italian business and way of life.He was appointed Wilkinson's youngest ever subsidiary Board Director as Director and General Manager for its European Operations continuing to live in Milan - with responsibilities for factories in Spain, subsidiaries in Italy and France and distributorships through Colgate Palmolive France and Lever Brothers Greece.On returning to the UK he was appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for all Wilkinson Match products except matches. He left to take up another challenging position aftre turning down a soft option (in his view) on the Board of the Prestige Group of Companies.

After selection through probably the most competitive recruitment process for graduates of that time (Including Rorschach Tests: IQ: Psychological interview: team competition and interview by main board Directors) Terry joined the largest Unilever subsidiary as a trainee buyer, buying merchandise for West and East African operating companies. He soon earned a stint in one of those companies in Nigeria as a Sales Manager for some of the products he had been buying.Within 12 months he was promoted to branch management and had his first experience of full profit and people management responsibility. This coincided with the civil war in Nigeria but in spite of the Army requisitioning of transport and materials and the ethnic cleansing which terrorised staff he continued to make profits for the business though a combination of price adjustments and rationalization. He closed one of the two branch sites in Kaduna.Terry was pretty much forced to return to the UK by senior management who did not see career opportunity in West Africa. He very soon transferred to Van den Bergh and Jurgens were he gained his first business to business and business to consumer marketing experience as a marketing manager in the UK catering and bakery division and then as the responsible product manager for soft margarines at a time when butter was still the spreading substance of choice. He managed the brand with the highest UK advertising budget at that time and learned how much easier it was to work with a large budget rather than a small or tight budget.In 1972 he chose to be head hunted to Wilkinson Sword because he wanted to work overseas again and especially in mainland Europe.

Bsc (Econ) Old Regulations, Politics, Economics,Philosophy,

Activities and Societies: Faculty Chair through Joint Registration with University Collegejoint registration with University College ,London

Bsc(Econ) London, Economics

Activities and Societies: Chair of Johnson Society. Editor of School MagazineAcademic studies focussed on 6th form Arts subjects. School.