1993 – 1996
Tecalemit Garage Equipment Co. Ltd., Plymouth, Devon – Finance Director
A Siebe (now Invensys) plc Group company - marketing, designing, engineering, manufacturing, selling and servicing equipment for the garage industry - at home and abroad. 240 employees (including teams in Sheffield and throughout the UK plus a printing organisation). Turnover £13m.
A team of 14 with 1 qualified accountant.
Key achievements included:
Led Cost Reduction/Restructuring activities, especially by highlighting Overheads spend – reduced expenditure by 7%.
Major player in the take-over of a service company, by identifying and setting up necessary procedures, controls and costs – enabled new market to be entered and turnover and profitability to increase by 10%.
Introduced Customer site visits - enforced payment terms, improved business relationships and improved Cash Flow by improving DSO’s by 5 days.
Optimised communications within the function and whole company, by use of appropriate reports, terminology and training – whilst reducing department headcount by 10%.
Achieved strict reporting requirements of Head Office – by setting up defined processes and disciplines achieved requirement of Day 4.
Location
Post Code: PL6 7BP
Website
Tecalemit has since been acquired by another company:
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