SOUTHEASTERN REP FIRMS CREATIVE MARKETING AND ELREP SALES JOIN FORCES
Strategic Partnership Created to Better Serve the Consumer, Custom Install, and Pro A/V Markets
ATLANTA, GA – March 11, 2013 –
Two veteran independent manufacturer’s sales representative firms based in the Southeast announced today that they have joined forces. Elrep Sales and Creative Marketing Associates, Inc. are creating a joint venture, binding their respective brands and personnel together to better serve consumer, custom install, and pro-AV customers across the Southeast. Both companies have built longstanding relationships with key integrators, retailers, and distributors throughout the area, and believe the merger of these highly respected firms will greatly enhance their ability to provide best-in-class service and support to their well-established Southeast regional marketplace.
“We are quite pleased to be joining forces with the Creative Marketing team,” said Ben Van De Kreke, co-founder of Elrep Sales, one of the most respected and tenured members of the consumer electronics industry. “The addition of Liz and Jim Kershaw and their staff, along with our newly combined stable of brands, has resulted in an impressive mix of solutions-oriented people and products that our current and prospective accounts will certainly embrace.”
“Strength in numbers will allow us meet the demands of our factory partners, and enables us to provide much better coverage to our dealer base across the South,” said Jim Kershaw, a partner in Creative Marketing. “We have been looking for an opportunity such as this for some time, but finding the right partner was proving difficult. In conversations with Ben, Honey and Steve Van de Kreke, we not only found many similarities in our overall view of the marketplace, but also total synergy in our philosophies, personalities, skill sets, and brand mix.”
The new company will be doing business as
MarketMakers, Inc.
, and corporate offices will be maintained both in Nashville, TN and Tucker, GA. Personnel will be strategically located throughout the territory in order to provide the best possible service. More announcements will be made as the two entities work through the details. Inquiries are welcome any time, and interested parties are encouraged to contact either of the executives noted below for additional information.
MarketMakers, Inc.
Executive Contacts:
Honey Van De Kreke:
Jim Kershaw:
About Elrep Sales: Founded over four decades ago, Elrep Sales has served the discerning consumer and professional A/V markets throughout the southeastern United States. Owners Ben & Honey Van De Kreke have extensive experience in all aspects of the electronics industry, as well as an outstanding reputation for exemplary service.
About Creative Marketing: Founded in 1985, Creative Marketing Associates have introduced many high technology brand names and applications to dealers and distributors across the southeastern United States. Owned by Liz & Jim Kershaw, the company has a great reputation for sales and technical training both to dealer personnel and to the public.
A Media Inquiries:
Please direct all media inquiries to:
Katye (McGregor) Bennett
KMB Communiations
O. (406) 446-1283
C. (425) 328-8640
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