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Steady growth
Despite taking huge enjoyment from the customer-facing responsibilities , in 2006 , Duane moved into Haith ’ s design office as a CAD design engineer . It wasn ’ t long before he was promoted to a technical sales engineer the following year .
“ I struck up a good rapport with customers and agents , and people started
asking me to visit their sites to discuss projects and quotations ,” he continues . “ The then-MD , Nigel Haith , set me up with a phone , laptop , and car , and I was ready to hit the road . I plotted every existing customer on a map and planned a route to visit them all . When travelling between clients , I would call on potential customers that I often identified by the stacks of potato boxes in their yards .
“ Slowly but surely , I built up a significant customer base in the UK , Europe , and USA , until it got to the point that I was so busy ,
George Geoffrey Haith , Founder , established the initial business in 1946
I had to build a sales team . Come 2014 , I
shared my vision and business plan with the Haith family , which included a steady path to growth through a new range of innovative products . By 2016 , having met all my targets , I was invited to be Sales Director on the board – as the first non-family member to do so . When Nigel retired as MD in 2020 , he asked me to succeed his position , and that ’ s where I ’ ve been since .”
Despite facing problems as a result of both Brexit and the pandemic , which caused Haith ’ s demand to dip , then rise once again , the company ’ s current most-pressing issue
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