POSSIBILITIES?
Level 5 looking for National Sales Manager? Remember the recruiting ad?
Parley (Paddy) Sheya - Director and National Sales Manager
Mr. Sheya brings over twenty-nine (29) years of international executive sales and distribution management experience in the beverage industry. He has a proven and successful track record in the development of brands and in building beverage brand sales and distribution systems from the ground up to multi-million case sales. A notable example includes leading Clearly Canadian® from nil to 4.8 million cases in less than 3 years as he administered 125 distributers and co-ordinated sales programs for all master distributers. He managed Kwencher® sales from nil to 1.7 million cases in less than 2 years along with bringing Blue Ox Energy Drink from nil to 850,000 cases and opening 122 distributors nationwide for what was then a new and unknown product. Mr. Sheya also managed a vast mix of beverage brands including: Jolt Cola®, Hires Root Beer®; Crush® Soda; Bubble-Up®; Country Time Lemonade®; Hansen’s Natural Sodas and Juices; New York Seltzer® and Evian Water®. Mr. Sheya, through Sheya Bros. Distributing, built a brand called Old San Francisco Seltzer which was the West’s answer to New York Seltzer. Sheya sold this brand to Cable Car Beverage Corp., owners of Stewarts Root Beer, a nationally recognized brand. During his career he has enjoyed excellent relations with major retailers such as Sam's, Wal-Mart, Target, Kroger, Costco, Walgreen's, CVS, Valero's, Public's, Win Dixie, Rainbow Foods, Safeway, Albertson's, 7-11, Circle K, Smith Foods, Kum-n-Go, Casey's, Sheetz, White Hens, Speedway, GNC, Conoco, Whole Foods, UNFI Rocky Mountain and West Coast, Sunflower Markets, Price Chopper Food Markets, Quik Trip and Vitamin Cottage and has further worked extensively with major distributors across the US as well as in Canada, Mexico, Ireland and the UK. Most recently he was the key account manager for New Leaf Brands, Inc. developing national sales for Inspiration Beverage and Bing Energy Drink. Mr. Sheya was educated at Eastern New Mexico University where he received a Bachelor of Science, Education with a Minor in Sociology. He was awarded an Athletic Scholarship (football) and Inducted into the ENMU Hall of Fame in 2005.
AI
