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New name and new brand for 50 year old organisation

Sales & Marketing Executives International, which was launched in New Zealand as part of an international organisation around the world in the 1940s, has represented sales professionals, sales managers and marketing managers for over 50 years.

The organisation now has a new name and a new brand.  Its new name is the Sales and Marketing Institute of New Zealand, and its brand emphasises the new direction that the organisation is taking as the leading association for professional sales managers and marketing managers.

The logo represents our 3 fundamental values: 

Partnership – two shaking hands, networking people, and the sales agreement; 

Incubating – nurturing, growth and development; 

Direction – an ‘eye’ looking to the future.

Sales managers, marketing managers, and people who hold positions within the various areas of sales and marketing throughout New Zealand now have an opportunity to belong to an organisation that will lift their professional skills, challenge them, build networks, and represent the importance to business of the roles that sales people and marketing people play.

Without marketing managers finding markets of potential customers, and getting them to make enquiries by phone, by mail, by personal visit, or through a website, there wouldn’t be any sales for the sales people to help customers make decisions on, to make sure that the products and services within businesses are converted into revenue to help pay for the production and the technical development.

Sales and marketing professionals are truly the main engines of many businesses, helping customers decide that they should be buying the products and services.

The new logo and the new name bring a 50 year old, established association to the forefront of 2004 thinking.

More details about Sales and Marketing Institute of New Zealand can be found on their website, www.salesmarketing.org.nz  (formerly smei.co.nz).

Further details and contacts can be made by contacting the Executive Administrator, Lisa Barraclough (09) 818 4224, lisa@salesmarketing.org.nz  or the President, Richard Gee, 0274 720 410, richard@salesmarketing.org.nz .