Virgin Media Business is proud to announce that John Maund, Sales Manager for the southern region, has won the ‘Sales Manager of the Year’ category at the British Excellence in Sales and Marketing Awards (BESMA). The award recognises his outstanding achievements and results for Virgin Media Business.
The award for best sales manager within a company with 50 or more employees is one of the most highly sought after accolades within the BESMA community. John fought off tough competition from hundreds of entrants and several strong finalists, including representatives from, nPower, Royal Mail and Dell, to win the award at the recent finalist dinner and gala, held on 27th May at the Lancaster Hotel, London.
This award recognises John’s fantastic achievements in managing some of Virgin Media Business’s largest public sector accounts. His outstanding customer relationship skills and successful sales efforts over 2009 is what impressed the judges the most, as well as his team’s high contract retention figures.
Mark Heraghty, Managing Director, Virgin Media Business said “We pride ourselves on employing great staff who seek to go above and beyond what is expected of them in order to deliver the best possible service to our customers. I am very pleased for John who thoroughly deserves this award in recognition of his superb work over the past year.”
Virgin Media Business was also represented in three other categories, with each representative receiving a finalist spot; categories included, ‘Sales Professional of the Year,’ ‘New Sales Professional of the Year’ and ‘Sales/Customer Service Team of the Year.’ This is the first award of its kind for Virgin Media Business since it’s re-brand earlier this year.
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About Virgin Media Business
Virgin Media Business is the UK’s only telco with a nationwide fibre optic Next Generation Network. Launched in February 2010, the company aims to bring the Virgin philosophy to the business telecoms market. Providing innovative, high quality solutions built on brilliant customer service.
Virgin Media Business is the largest business-to-business brand in the Virgin group. With a strong product portfolio that includes its market leading Ethernet services. It uses its network asset in order to create bespoke tailored telecoms solutions for its customers. Employees are located at 40 offices across the UK, allowing Virgin Media Business to be closer to its customers in every sense.
Previously known as ntl:Telewest Business, organisations working with Virgin Media Business include London City Airport, Arqiva, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Partnership and South West Water.
About Virgin Media
With almost 10 million customers, Virgin Media is the UK's first quad-play provider of broadband, TV, phone and mobile.
The company is one of the largest residential broadband providers in the UK, using a unique fibre optic cable network to deliver next generation ultrafast internet access of up to 50Mb to just over half of all homes. Combined with a high speed ADSL service and mobile broadband products, Virgin Media is able to offer broadband internet access to virtually the entire country.
Virgin Media has the UK’s most advanced TV on demand service and is the only TV platform to carry BBC iPlayer. It is the second largest provider of pay TV, was the first to launch a high definition TV service and offers a high-specification, HD-ready V+ personal video recorder.
The company operates the most popular virtual mobile network in the UK which, when launched, was the world’s first such mobile phone service. It is also one of the largest fixed-line home phone providers in the country.
Virgin Media also owns Virgin Media Television (VMtv) which runs seven entertainment channels, including Virgin1, LIVING, Bravo and Challenge. VMtv is a 50 per cent joint partner with BBC Worldwide in UKTV, which consists of ten channels including Dave, G.O.L.D., Watch and Alibi.
With operations based entirely in the UK, Virgin Media Inc. is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (VMED) and the London Stock Exchange (VMED).
For more information, go to http://www.virginmedia.com/
