The News Review:
- Global IMB Names Don Pelham Senior Vice President of Sales and …
- Bobcats hire Guelli to handle sales marketing
- GM rolls out incentive program to quickly drive car sales
- Mike Arnold Named VP of Sales & Marketing for Summit
- Borders Profit Plunges; Debt Inventory Are Cut
Global IMB Names Don Pelham Senior Vice President of Sales and …
FXBusiness
“Don has a way of inspiring a whole team to exceed its potential. He’s already working his magic here. As Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Pelham will be in charge of pursuing new accounts as well as overseeing some of Global IMB’s existing clients. Additionally Pelham will be a key part of Global IMB’s strategic leadership team to stay at the forefront of both the Internet marketing and brand development. “Global IMB and Tim Dillard see the future of advertising” says Pelham. “It’s much more than researching audiences and placing spots. You can’t do branding without tech marketing.
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Bobcats hire Guelli to handle sales marketing
USA Today
(AP) — The Charlotte Bobcats have hired an NFL executive to try to boost ticket sales. The Bobcats said Monday that former Buffalo Bills vice president Pete Guelli will take over the sales and marketing job that had gone unfilled since Greg Economou left before the season. The team has made numerous changes in the front office since Bob Johnson paid $300 million for the expansion franchise which began play in 2004. The team ranks 27th out of 30 NBA teams in attendance this season. Guelli spent 11 years with the Bills. He’ll begin his new job April 20.
GM rolls out incentive program to quickly drive car sales
Los Angeles Times
that will cover up to 12 months of payments up to $700 apiece in the event of unemployment. It’s called Ford Advantage. “What we found was that traditional incentives just weren’t working” said Mark LaNeve GM’s North American head of sales and marketing. He said the company would push Total Confidence with commercials during this weekend’s Final Four basketball tournament. Chrysler which has set records in recent months with sky-high cash-back incentives has not announced such a program. But people familiar with the company’s operations said it was preparing a new marketing push that would be announced as soon as this week. The industry is braced for another round of bad news when March sales figures are released today.
Mike Arnold Named VP of Sales & Marketing for Summit
FXBusiness
For the past two years Arnold was vice president of the Southeast Region. Prior to this he was regional director for that region since March 2001. He began his Summit career as an account executive in the Florida sales department in ctober 2000. Arnold graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor of science in criminology and has been in the insurance industry for 21 years. Summit provides workers’ compensation products and services to nearly 38000 businesses in Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina and Tennessee. Summit — which includes Summit Consulting Inc. and its subsidiaries — is based in Lakeland Fla.
Borders Profit Plunges; Debt Inventory Are Cut
Wall Street Journal
the second-largest U. bookstore retailer by sales on Tuesday evening reported a plunge in earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter but reduced debt by $218 million at year-end and sharply cut inventory levels. The retailer has been slashing payroll and paring costs as the book business has slumped amid the recession. It has announced three rounds of layoffs since Jan. 1 totaling nearly 900 employees. In the quarter ended Jan.