Parkside Strengthens Its Sales Team With Three Specification Tile Experts

Parkside announces the appointment of Steve Lacey, Karl Reeves and Andy Habbick. These new additions strengthen the company’s existing sales team, bringing an additional wealth of experience and expertise of working in the architectural specification sector.

Steve Lacey (centre) joins as Sales & Design Director. Previously a Director at Swedecor, Steve has established a significant portfolio of key clients and major projects throughout his career as well as managing and developing sales teams. Steve has extensive experience in working throughout the supply chain to ensure availability of materials for one-off projects and client build programmes and has specialist swimming pool knowledge.

Karl Reeves (left) takes up the position of Architectural Consultancy Manager. He has worked his entire career in the tile and ceramic industry, most recently with Swedecor. His wide experience includes customer relationship development, liaising with clients, architects and designers through to main contractors, fit out and tiling contractors. Karl enjoys researching new products for clients and has an in-depth knowledge of specifying tiles for swimming pools.

Andy Habbick (right) also joins Parkside as Architectural Consultancy Manager. Andy has a strong background in the tile industry, having originally worked for a number of consumer-focused tile specialists that covered London and the Home Counties. He began specialising in architectural, trade and specification sales in 1998 when he joined Swedecor. While here, he became Southern Sales Manager and later Company Sales Manager, gaining considerable experience in the sales department, working closely with architects, designers and key clients as well as on major corporate accounts.

With over 100 years’ experience between them, the new team members are looking forward to working with their customers to create original and inventive projects using tiles.