{"id":21033,"date":"2022-02-10T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/?p=21033"},"modified":"2024-07-23T13:15:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T13:15:06","slug":"omex-horticulture-appoints-technical-sales-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/omex-horticulture-appoints-technical-sales-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"OMEX Horticulture Appoints Technical Sales Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk-agriculture-products\/horticulture\">OMEX Horticulture<\/a> has appointed Joe Barfoot as technical sales manager with nutritional responsibilities for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/crops\/protected-edibles\">protected edibles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/crops\/protected-ornamentals\">ornamentals<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/crops\/outdoor-flowers\">flowers<\/a>, vines, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/crops\/soft-fruit\">soft<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/crops\/top-fruit\">top fruit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe joins OMEX from Hortifeeds where he was area sales manager for four years and prior to that he was responsible for agricultural foliar sales at Downham Market-based Soil Fertility Services.<\/p>\n<p>With an agricultural BSc degree earned from Reading University and <a href=\"https:\/\/basis-reg.co.uk\/scheme-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FACTS<\/a> qualified, plus nine years experience in agricultural sales and distribution and four years in horticulture, Joe brings a wealth of theoretical and practical knowledge to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk-agriculture-products\/horticulture\">OMEX Horticulture\u2019s<\/a> expanding team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHorticulture is a growing industry in which there are an enormous number of opportunities,\u201d explains Joe. \u201cOMEX Horticulture is positioned at a much higher technical level than I have experienced before. The technical investment includes having Horticulture FACTS and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basis-reg.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BASIS<\/a> qualification as standard. I look forward to maintaining relationships with existing customers and to building market share in all aspects of horticulture, particularly in top fruit, cut flowers and protected edible crops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe will work alongside Richard Cameron and Neil Holmes covering the southern half of Great Britain. For further information please contact OMEX Horticulture on 01553 760011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMEX Horticulture has appointed Joe Barfoot as technical sales manager with nutritional responsibilities for protected edibles, ornamentals, flowers, vines, and soft\/top fruit. Joe joins OMEX from Hortifeeds where he was area sales manager for four years and prior to that he was responsible for agricultural foliar sales at Downham Market-based Soil Fertility Services. With an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horticulture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88929,"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033\/revisions\/88929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}