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New Appointments at The Consortium
New Appointments at The Consortium
February 12, 2008
Award winning supplier to the education and care sectors The Consortium has appointed four new members
of staff to focus on key areas of the business.
Penny Barkas joins The Consortium as Head of Customer Services. She will be looking at The Consortium’s
entire customer experience, reviewing customer service across the social care, education and early years
sectors and working to enhance the company's award-winning service.
With over ten years of focused industry experience Penny joins The Consortium from a Bristol company, where
she was responsible for all sales and service contact and a 180-strong customer service team.
Graham Feboul has been appointed Direct Marketing Manager. He will be responsible for managing the print
production of the annual catalogues, database activities, event based marketing as well as developing the
website and its online capabilities. Graham has extensive direct marketing experience, having worked in
similar roles in a range of different industries.
Darren Liffen joins The Consortium as Logistics Manager. With over 15 years of warehouse, distribution and
logistics management experience, Darren joins the company from TDG, one of Europe's leading supply management
companies.
Darren has extensive experience serving business to business and business to consumer markets and will
be responsible for all of The Consortium's warehouse and distribution operations.
He will be working to improve delivery times, helping customers to track their orders more easily as
well as looking to minimise the environmental impact of nationwide deliveries.
And, finally, Barney Greig is seconded as brand developer to focus on sourcing, supplying and increasing
the range of green products for the care and education sectors.
The Consortium already leads the way on sustainable and environmentally friendly business practices.
Barney, who is originally from New Zealand, comes from a purchasing and sales background and is a committed
environmentalist and passionate about recycling.
"Our customers are increasingly aware of the impact of their activities, the products they use and their
buying decisions," says Mr Greig.
"In schools and early years settings, sustainability and environmental issues have become top of the agenda
with children, teachers and government. In care homes, managers are considering the products they use, the
recycling potential and subsequent environmental impact."
Melanie Teal, Chief Executive at The Consortium comments: "These appointments follow impressive sales
growth in both the education and care sectors."
"The new members of staff will focus on The Consortium's top priority - which is to provide excellent
customer service, as well as supporting our direct marketing activity and taking the industry leading step
to increase our extensive range of 'green' products."
The Consortium already stocks Tru-Green
environmentally-friendly padded envelopes made out of plant
waste and jute, and has been exploring a selection of other biodegradable and compostable products to
add to its ranges.