Richard Booth

Experience

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  Mark Booth Casings, Teeuwissen UK

  May 1986 - Aug 2008

  Partner / Managing Director

  · Family business established in 1960.· Primarily an importer and exporter of natural casings for onward sale to sausage manufacturers and dealers in the UK, Europe, and the US· I had varied roles including setting up the finance system, managing the warehouse and shipping, coordinating the sales, abattoir management, installing and maintaining machines, and looking after staffing issues.· Between 1992- and 2002-Mark Booth Casings took over the UK management of Independent Casing Company - the biggest casing company in the world at that time. We had a factory with 50 workers processing £6m of UK sheep runners per year.• Between 2005 and 2008 I also managed the UK operation for Teeuwissen UK who bought Mark Booth Casings. Focussed on sales and raw material procurement. Show less

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  Butchers-Sundries

  Aug 2008 - Oct 2012

  Area Sales Manager

  • Helped to establish a start-up packaging business into one of the key players in the meat sundries industry through:• Globally sourcing products suitable for medium and large manufacturers supplying direct to retail• Helped to establish butchers’ sundries online store.• Natural casings/ collagen casings, plastic casings, shrink bags, printed bags, meat netting, ingredients, vacuum pouches, fibrous casings, twine, poultry loops and many more.

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  CTH (a Darling Ingredients brand)

  Nov 2012 - Jan 2016

  UK Sales Manager

  • Responsible for all sales of natural casings to the UK and Ireland. - All new business. • Product development working closely with Dutch and Chinese production sites; managing long lead times. • Responsible for P&L and budgets. • Managed UK quality process including BRC paperwork and specifications.• Responsible for the purchase of UK raw material.• Organised exhibitions.• Set up CRM system.

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  Authenticate

  Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

  Sales Manager

  New business development and existing customer growth of an SAAS solution developed to provide supply chain transparency from farm to fork.I was responsible for the meat sector and for developing the J Sainsbury and Morrison’s accounts. The entire set up and strategy of the business changed and I was the last one out of the door when everything (but not staff) moved to the main hub site in Yorkshire.

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  Sealed Air Corporation

  Jan 2017 - Feb 2019

  Key Account Manager

  • Responsible for managing blue chip accounts in the South UK ; value £10m • Improved the bottom line by 20% at one key account, and one customer that became a key account and multi sites from being a single site low value customer. • Trials of new products and machinery solutions. Presenting innovations and demonstrating them in factories• Implemented regular audits of meat processors with shrink bags to improve their process and yields achieved through identifying process and product improvements. • Products worked with: barrier bags, barrier thermoforming films, flow wrap films, lidding films, including print, thermoforming machines, tray lidding machines, flow wrappers, shrink tunnels and gas flush sealers. Show less

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  R H PACKAGING LIMITED

  Feb 2019 - Oct 2019

  Key Account Manager

  Responsible for sales to key food manufacturer and catering distributor accounts and new business to larger food groups of packaging and packaging machinery. Also for growing sales in the smaller catering businesses looking for eco friendly packaging options. Responsible to dealing with all major meat processors at head office level and site level for the CVP range of dolav vacuum sealers. Responsible for web site development and online shop including social media marketing.

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  Mark Booth Casings

  Nov 2019 - Oct 2020

  Managing Director

  Mark Booth Casings was re established in 2019 to be the UK representatives for Teijsen b.v, one of the world's best and most respected natural sheep, hog, and beef casings manufacturers and processors. £0 to £700k 100% new business in one year.Ceased trading when it was clear that after brexit and covid the market for natural casings had reduced, and the drop ship system I preferred to us was no longer viable due to extra paperwork and costs.

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  Mosca Direct UK

  Oct 2020 - now

  Responsible for the sales in the UK and Ireland for Movitec which is a manufacturer in of ring wrappers and fully owned subsidiary of Mosca gmbh. The same great systems experience, build quality, reliability, and service as the market already expects from Mosca built machines. Also involved in every aspect of the Movitec business from service and parts offering to internal sales and technical support and facilitating best practice.Taking a leading role, and training and supporting the sales and internal teams on SAP CRM. Show less Mosca is the global number one manufacturer of strapping machinery, pallet wrapping machinery and strap, providing solutions suitable for all sectors; either stand alone or integrated into complex end of line systems. I look after machine sales to the independent corrugated and box industry, and the meat, poultry and fish industries nationally. Member of the cultural values team. #empowerment, #responsibilityandsenseofduty, #dutytocommunicate, #Strengthen relationships by finding common ground & having fun, #caringandkindness, #Flexibility to always be part of the solution Show less

  • Movitec Sales Manager

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Business Development Manager

    Oct 2020 - Jan 2024