Ford Sri Lanka’s Assistant Manager Sales wins global recognition

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Kurt Chavez the Assistant Manager Sales at Future Automobiles Ltd., the dealer for Ford automobiles in Sri Lanka, a subsidiary of Softlogic Holdings PLC was placed 2nd at the recently concluded Ford Asia Pacific Walk Around challenge held in Bangkok Thailand. The contest was amongst 40 of the best Sales Consultants from Ford dealerships across 40 countries. Chavez was just two points behind the overall winner Sharron Carreon from Ford Guam. Chavez came out as the overall winner in the 2012 challenge. The contestants were judged on Ford’s product knowledge, competitor product knowledge, skills in prospecting through referrals, Ford brand, heritage, knowledge, awareness and sales closing skills. Kurt strongly believes the experience and international best practices learned from the challenge both in 2012 and 2013, has and will help him better contribute to the aggressive plans Future Automobiles Ltd. has set for growing Ford’s brand objectives in Sri Lanka. The team at Future Automobiles - Ford is equally as excited as Kurt on his huge achievement, and the excitement is further fuelled by the moving of the Sales, Service and Spare Parts departments to Pelawatte, all under one roof into a brand new purpose built state-of-the-art 3S facility in the first quarter of 2014.