Tobacco

Kretek Announces New HQ Sales Roles

Also names five new key account managers

MOORPARK, Calif. -- Kretek International Inc. has announced several new headquarters sales roles, and added five new key account sales managers in the Central and Northeast regions.

Kretek (CSP Daily News / Convenience Stores / Tobacco)

The company has elevated Rick Sherlock to inside sales manager and has promoted Patty Nuno to sales supervisor. It has also promoted Louie Lerma to customer account manager for the Southeast region and added Britany Kane to the new position of business development manager.

Lerma will manage customer accounts in support of regional sales personnel, and Kane will ensure new Kretek customers are integrated into the company's sales system.

And Kretek's new sales representatives will focus on serving distributors and retail headquarters in their respective sales territories:

  • Mark Ford is the Central region key account manager serving retailers and distributors in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
  • Kevin Klyszek is serving the Central region accounts as key account manager in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
  • Cheryl Stinchfield is Central region key account manager for the upper Midwest and Plains states including Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
  • Kevin Malloy is Northeast region key account manager for New England including Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont.
  • Kevin Dunn is Northeast region key account manager for the Mid-Atlantic states, including Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Ohio.

Moorpark, Calif.-based Kretek International is a privately held importing and marketing company with business concentrated in the specialty tobacco, OTP and e-vapor categories. It is the exclusive importer and marketer of Voodoo and EZ Cig e-vapor products including electronic cigarettes, personal vaporizers and e-liquids, as well as Djarum and Cuban Rounds imported cigars, Nuvino wines, DjEEP disposable lighters and a range of handmade premium imported cigars, pipe tobaccos and smoking accessories. More recently, Kretek has begun distributing VirMax, a brand of male-enhancement products.

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