- Former Lyreco Key Account Manager to Boost sales-i’s Share of the Office Products Market -

Solihull, UK - October 16th, 2008 - sales-i, (www.sales-i.com) the real-time sales intelligence service for front line sales people today announced that it has fortified its sales team with the appointment of Ashley Grove who is charged with expanding sales-i’s already considerable footprint in the office products market.

Ashley comes to sales-i with an impressive sales career during which he has held a variety of field and office-based business development roles. In 2002 Ashley joined Lyreco, a leading office supplies company, where as a field sales representative, covering Gloucester, Tewkesbury and the Forest of Dean, he delivered sales growth of 235%, adding 239 new customers to Lyreco’s base. Promoted to Lyreco’s corporate division, Ashley took charge of key national accounts including the Land Registry and West Midlands Police consortium where he successfully managed contracts valued at £3 million.

"With Ashley on board leading Office Products market sales, we are in a great position to capitalise on our already strong growth in such a target market," said Paul Black, co-founder of sales-i. "sales-i is a perfect fit for office products companies and this coupled with Ashley’s extensive market knowledge and experience will be instrumental in shaping our future growth.”

Speaking of his appointment Ashley commented, “I wish I had had sales-i when I was working as a field salesman. Having that level of customer information at my finger tips would have helped me enormously; being alerted in real-time to call opportunities and then being able to log notes from that call immediately afterwards would have helped me exceed my target quicker and saved me working those long evenings!.” Ashley continues, “The benefits that sales-i delivers to office products sales professionals are immense and I look forward to helping as many as possible to accelerate their sales figures.”

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