Ian Dennison, ProQuip Golf’s longest-serving gross sales consultant, has introduced his retirement after serving the corporate and its clients within the south east of England for greater than 28 years.
‘Denny’ joined ProQuip in 1997, when Caledonian Golf Group owned and managed the model. He was employed to develop inexperienced grass retail accounts in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Jersey, Guernsey and the M25 hall south and west of London.
“Doug McLelland of Silvermere Golf beneficial me for the job. I took a practice to Darlington to satisfy Ken Saint, then gross sales supervisor for Ben Sayers and ProQuip, in a resort close to the station. The assembly lasted 10 minutes, he provided me the job, and I’ve been on the highway ever since,” mentioned Dennison.
His profession began in 1975 working within the professional store at Sittingbourne Golf Membership in Kent, earlier than shifting into discipline gross sales promoting Additional Robust Mints and confectionery for family-run enterprise Trebor.
After nearly three many years constructing relationships in golf retail, Dennison says he’s prepared for retirement.
“I don’t wish to rise up at 5am anymore, to be within the automobile by six. I’m going to get pleasure from getting up at 8 o’clock, stress-free within the backyard, going to Millwall video games, fishing and making an attempt my hand at garden bowls.”
Russell Brooks, basic supervisor of ProQuip Golf, mentioned: “Ian has developed a first-class community of shoppers and persistently exceeded all expectations, each by way of gross sales efficiency and the way he represented and championed ProQuip and its companion manufacturers.
“Ian was sensible to work alongside, fiercely devoted, with a herculean work ethic. He was an old-fashioned salesman, believed passionately in assembly clients face-to-face; and took the time to hear, be taught and perceive their companies and shopping for wants,” added Brooks.
Dennison additionally carried merchandise for Californian attire model Ashworth Golf and Zerofit Sports activities, producers of the Heatrub Final base layer, beneath ProQuip distribution agreements for the UK and Eire markets.
Paul Gerrard, nationwide gross sales supervisor for ProQuip, mentioned: “Ian will likely be massively missed by everybody at ProQuip. He constructed the southeast into the model’s highest-performing gross sales territory and maintained it 12 months after 12 months. We want him a well-deserved retirement, hopefully with extra time spent on the fairways than within the professional store.”
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