NEWBURY PARK, Calif. (BRAIN) — Giant USA has promoted several of its employees to new roles, starting with John "JT" Thompson, who has been promoted to executive director.
Thompson will still be in charge of Giant's sales and retail services, and now adds Credit, Product, and Marketing.
"JT has brought so much knowledge and energy to Giant in his three years with us, and has so much more to bring," Elysa Walk, Giant USA's general manager, said in a letter to Giant and Liv retailers. "By pulling these departments under his leadership, he will be able to foster a total focus on market success, with a specific emphasis on succeeding at retail. With our aggressive growth plans in motion for the coming years, JT will lead us to fire on all cylinders to grow our brand share to the best it can be."
Other personnel changes at Giant are Jim Furey's move into a new role at the company called "Business Intelligence Manager." Furey is now directly responsible for managing the gathering of intelligence to aid sales and POS to maximize opportunity, profit, growth, forecast accuracy, reduce overstock, and steer the company's decision-making processes, Walk said.
"Jim will work with both bike and gear products, with an initial emphasis on gear, delivering the best possible intelligence to manage the business to grow profitably," she said.
Allen Needle is continuing his sales operations management duties, and is now also the company's inside sales manager.
Danny Fitzgerald is taking on a new position on Giant's credit team as credit solutions manager.
Elena Smith is now Giant's new credit manager.
Brad Parkins has been promoted to senior POS manager.
Nicole Miller: Nicole is taking on the daily job functions of the customer service rep and will continue her role in reception as one of the first voices you hear when you call Giant.
"Personally, I am very proud of each of these individuals and thrilled to not only see them each reach a new level, but excited that as a total group, we are all rising above," Walk said.
