Focused on servicing the south of the UK, the role requires a proven track record of account management, strong knowledge of the field sports sector and the ability to uphold high customer service values. The suitable candidate will also be…
sales
Edgar Brothers is excited to announce the opportunity to join their shooting sports sales team
Tagged with: customer service, edgar brothers, field sports, industry, sales, shooting sports, shotgun
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Posted in News
ADVERTORIAL: Breda Zenith is perfect for the clay season
Lockdown is easing and the clay grounds are springing to life again, now is the ideal time to consider investing in a clay gun range with all the features you require to improve sales in your gun shop. The Breda…
Tagged with: breda zenith, clay, clay gun range, clay shooting, gun shop, lockdown, sales, season
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Behind the scenes at Leupold Optics
Sporting Rifle’s Thomas Nissen visits one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hunting optics, Leupold Optics. The optical manufacturer Leupold Optics—or Leupold & Stevens Inc, as the company is actually known—is located in a beautiful industrial neighbourhood in the northwest…
Tagged with: behind the scenes, binoculars, hunting, hunting optics, jon slack, leupold optics, marketing, mountings, oregon, rangefinders, recoil, rifle hunter, riflescope, riflescopes, sales, Sporting Rifle, spotting scopes, telescope, telescopes, thermal optics, thomas nissen
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Posted in Features
Behind the scenes at BSA – the GTN interview
We got the opportunity this month to sit down and virtual chat to managing director Simon Moore and head of sales and marketing Jon Hatton about the recent and less recent history of this fine old British brand. BSA has…
Tagged with: air pistol, airgun, barrels, brand, british, british shooting show, Browning, BSA, bullpup, daisy, firearms, gamo, gmk, gtn, guns, jon hatton, karl waktare, lee enfield, lockdown, moderator, pcp, pellet, product range, products, r and d, rifle, sales, scope, shooting, simon moore, stock, winchester
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Posted in Interviews
Behind the scenes: Key moments in Alan Paine’s history
Gun Trade News meets up with James Hinton and Kam Sahota of Alan Paine to discuss some of the most decisive moments in the company’s recent history. When GTN last spoke to Alan Paine, the brand was marking its 110th…
Tagged with: alan paine, clothing, company, competition, country wear, countryside, countryside collection, footwear, gun trade news, james hinton, kam sahota, lifestyle, marketplace, products, range, retail, sales, waterproof
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Posted in Interviews
The Viennese faults
Diggory Hadoke explores the possibility of European auction houses usurping classic British sales. An interesting letter appeared on my desk recently. It was from a European auction house and it was asking for consignments from the UK. The auction house…
Wild wild west Kensington
Holt’s have enjoyed big sales of late – and with a change of address and even more hammer action on the horizon, Jonathan Downs gathers for a Holt’s extravaganza. Holt’s Blackheath, London – 13 December 2018 …
Tagged with: 20-bore, buyer, churchill gunmakers, high st kensington, holland & hollandm sporting model, Holt's, John Rigby, jonathan downs, nitro express, sales, sidelock, top seller
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Mat Manning teams up with Stuart Grant to help retailers
Mat Manning catches up with Stuart Grant from Elite Optical Distribution, as they seek to help retailers get more from airgun sights and accessories. The airgun market is booming but most retailers could be doing a lot more to take…
Tagged with: 11mm, 30mm, 34mm, affordable, airgun scope, airguns, alloy, bak 4 prisms, BFTA, binoculars, BKL, bkl mounts, business, carry case, cloth, competition-grade, customers, delta, detection range, e-commerce, Elite Optical Distribution, evx 6-24x56 IR, falcon, focal plane, forest II 10x42 binoculars, gun, gun shop, hash-marked, illuminator, john farbrother, kitbag, lens covers, licence holders, light transmission, live quarry, lockable, long unitized dovetail, magnification, market, Mat Manning, mh10X focal plane, MIL, mounts, mrad, neck strap, night vision lines, NiteSite, nitrogen-purged, optics, Optics Warehouse, Optisan, performance, powder-burners, price tag, products, reconnaissance, retailers, reticle, rifles, s1813-18x50 ffp, sales, scope, shooter, shooting, side parallax, spring-powered, springer, stock, stryker target ultra ed 5-50x56, stuart grant, sunshade, thumb adjustable, tins, trade, traders, turrets, viper, waterproof, WFTC, zero stop, zoom
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Posted in Market Opportunities
Hoisting The Sales
MY LOCAL SHIP’S CHANDLERS CAN BE QUITE BUSY ON THE GROUND FLOOR. This is where they sell anti-foul paint, varnish, binnacles, line and life jackets. On the first floor they have sailing shoes and clothing. Just the other day, the…
Tagged with: bank, buyers, chadlers, economy, government, gtn, gun trade, high street, job losses, markets, Money talk, news, online, roger williams, sales, unemployment
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Posted in Comment, Features
Point and Click
Social Media has altered the way we do everything. Even the gun trade, the steeped-in-history, grizzled, old, gun trade has bent a knee to the new king. Frequenters of Facebook will know that there are interest groups of all kinds…
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