About Gem
Gem provide our partners with end to end integrated supply chain solutions and added value distribution to the retail channel for software,
peripheral and connected home technologies. In our third decade, Gem's history of success includes exclusive UK distribution Codemasters,
Livescribe, NCsoft, Take Two and Xbox 360 as well as being a leading UK distributor for vendors such as Kaspersky Lab, Logitech, Microsoft,
Sandisk and Symantec, producing an annual turnover in excess of £200 million. Gem supply to an extensive customer base including well-known
high street and Internet retailers, corporate resellers, mail order companies and independent retailers. We have also recently extended our
category reach into new sectors of the market including audio/visual, digital pens and video cameras.
Our multi-facetted business extends outside of sales and distribution providing one integrated solution through our Gem Logistics and Gem
Creative divisions. For further information on Gem's services visit: www.gem.co.uk.
Gem is a wholly owned subsidiary of DCC plc, for further information please visit www.dcc.ie
About Gem Logistics
Gem Logistics provides national logistical solutions to suit the needs of any operation, adding extra value
with a wide range of supporting services and our customer focused team. Services include primary and secondary logistics,
end user fulfillment, import/export facilities, European distribution and retail specific virtual warehousing.
For more information please contact Douglas Yarker on 01282 or douglasy@gem.co.uk
About Gem Creative
The main objective of Gem Creative is to support Gem's core sales function in marketing & communication, trade PR,
collateral and trade show attendance. Gem Creative can also offer a design and production agency solution to support
our supplier's needs in the retail channel. Gem Creative can be used by our supply partners as a second tier agency to
compliment their existing in-house facilities or agency arrangements, especially where additional requirement is needed.
Gem Creative can offer design and production support in key areas such as trade & consumer advertising campaigns,
Point Of Sale material, repackaging, bundling design and retail solutions as well as offering media buying and publishing
facilities. For more information on Gem Creative, please contact Neil Handa on 01279 459072 or email on
neilh@gem.co.uk
About Exspect
Founded in 2004, Exspect has built a reputation of producing popular and uniquely designed innovative cases, covers and
accessories for iPods, MP3 players, portable games consoles and more. By understanding customer needs and wants,
Exspect has produced proven successes throughout their history. Since their acquisition by Gem in May 2006, Exspect has
gone on to develop a new range of over 100 products and has extended it's reach into technical product areas including
FM transmitters and premium speakers for the Apple iPod. For more information please visit
www.exspect.co.uk.
2007/2008 Financials
- Financials: Sales of £208.9 (€263.2) Million to 31st March 2008
- 1200+ Independent Retail Accts
- Major Customers Such as:-
Milestones
- Company formed 1984
- Appointed Microsoft distributor 1988
- Gem acquired by DCC March 1995
- Appointed as exclusive UK Xbox distributor October 2001
- Appointed as exclusive UK Take 2 distributor May 2002
- Moved into purpose built office January 2003
- Appointed as exclusive UK Xbox 360 distributor May 2005
- Acquisition of the Exspect brand July 2006
- Appointed as exclusive UK NCsoft distributor October 2006
- Take 2 Primary warehousing February 2007
Job Opportunities at Gem
Job Title: Leisure Account Manager
Positioning:
The Leisure team require a professional, self motivated and profit driven sales person who can demonstrate effective planning and prioritising of their time to achieve minimum daily call out expectations, leading towards the achievement of agreed monthly individual targets across our range of Leisure Gaming Software & Peripherals. They will be expected to identify, generate and develop sales opportunities across existing accounts whilst proactively and constructively building a pipeline of new business development.
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