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Felt Bicycles has announced that it has now completed its Sales Team for the UK.
Fidi Schnoor joined the Felt team in February as UK Sales Manager. Based in the European Headquarter in Germany, Fidi is in charge of the UK Sales Team and look after Felt’s customers in the Northern territory. Before Fidi joined Felt, he worked 7 years in the role of Senior Brand Manager at the UK Distributor Zyro.
Just recently Tony Rose (West England and Wales) and Naythan Bellamy (East England and London) have joined the Felt Team and will represent Felt in their UK sales territories as Commercial Agents. Both are known in the UK cycling industry for more than 20 years in which they worked in sales roles for leading distributors and brands. Daniel Granz has joined the Internal Sales team at the same time and will be based at the European HQ. He takes care of the sales and customer service support for Felt’s UK customers.
Felt’s European Marketing Manager Heiko Boehle commented that he will pay strong attention to the UK market. Also Felt continues to be a sponsor of the British NFTO Pro Cycling Team with whom Felt renewed their sponsor agreement for the 2016 and 2017 Race seasons in February this year. “It is a great excitement for us to continue to support the NFTO Team that has developed to a leading team in the British Road Cycling Race scene and that generated great results even beyond the UK boarders”, said Heiko Boehle.
CEO of Felt, Marc Schmiedtke said: "Going direct in the UK was a big move for us but having the new UK Sales team now completed, we at Felt are very excited about the opportunity to build a more direct and even closer relationship with our customers in the UK. The British market has always been strong for Felt and with the new products we have in the pipeline and the focus and support that our UK specific teams will give to the UK market, we do look forward to an exciting and successful future.”
