AGITO announces heads of sales for APAC

AGITO Global designs, manufactures, integrates and maintains material handling systems for the Food and Beverage; Warehouse and Logistics; E-commerce; and Industrial sectors. The company was founded in 1979, and has more than 100 staff in locations across Australia, UK and Portugal. As part of its global expansion strategy, AGITO announced in 2022 it was entering into a Joint Venture with Hilton Food Group.

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AGITO continues to benefit from long term partnerships with key customers. As part of the growth plans, AGITO has invested in people and infrastructure to ensure that existing partnerships can continue to thrive in parallel with bringing on onboard new customers. AGITO has strengthened the sales, business development and technical solutions team over the past 12 months and we are pleased to announce that Alan Brooke will continue to lead all key accounts in our Food and Beverage space, while Ricardo Rabago’s recent addition to the business will see him lead all Intralogistics key accounts. Both are supported by dedicated and experienced technical solutions and estimating teams.

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Brad Jackson (Managing Director APAC) said “AGITO's appetite to grow in the APAC region across various market segments remains high. With Alan leading our Food and Beverage market and Ricardo leading our Intralogistics market, I believe AGITO is very well positioned to grow significantly across both markets in the region. They both have a wealth of market knowledge, experience and ability to grow teams in the APAC region, and I am excited to be working and growing together.”

AGITO's General Manager for the APAC region, Cory Saunders, added “The strategic appointments of Alan and Ricardo are aimed at reinforcing AGITO’s core foundations in the food and beverage industry, while also driving the business' ongoing growth in the intralogistics market. Recent additional appointments further enhance our ability to deliver industry-leading automation expertise, supporting the growth and optimization of both existing customers and new partners in these sectors.”

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Alan has been with AGITO for 1 year and his previous roles included, sales and project management at KHS for seven years, sales manager at Prime Engineering for sixteen years, and recently national sales engineer at Foodmach.? Alan is highly regarded and respected by his peers in the industry as one of the best in designing high speed packaging lines and will be working with existing clients, and will also seek out new business opportunities to further grow AGITO across all our markets in the in the food and beverage arena.

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Ricardo recently joined AGITO with 20 years of business development experience. Half of them specifically in automation and materials handling, having held positions in Sales and Project Management for airports and intralogistics, with involvement in small, medium and large projects mostly in Australia and New Zealand. In his previous roles he has experienced periods of high company growth, which, together with his key account management skills, go hand in hand with the goals of the organisation. ?