UK DISTRIBUTOR FINE SOUNDS UK EXPANDS

Distributor Fine Sounds UK welcomes a new Business Development Manager and Marketing Coordinator and introduces a Country Manager.

High-end audio distributor, Fine Sounds UK, the British home to McIntosh, Sonus faber, IsoTek and Bassocontinuo, has expanded its UK team with two new appointments, and a key promotion.

ANDY OATTES

The company’s Sales Director, Andy Oattes, has been promoted to Country Manager and takes on a key role in business strategy, expansion, and development for Fine Sounds UK. Commenting on Andy Oattes’ promotion, Lionel Nunney, McIntosh Group Chief Commercial Officer said, “Andy has been instrumental in achieving strong growth for our brands in the UK and Ireland, and building strong relationships with our trade partners. We are thrilled by the progress made in just over one year and the positive feedback received from our partners.”

Fine Sounds UK’s Andy Oattes

JOE GORMLEY

Fine Sounds UK’s sales team sees the addition of ex-Chord Company Area Sales Manager, Joe Gormley as Business Development Manager, a role also undertaken by Fine Sounds’ Matt Peddle, allowing the expanding business to cover the whole of the UK and Ireland more effectively.
Joe brings an enormous amount of both CI and HiFi experience to Fine Sounds, gained from his 17-year history in the audio industry, including positions with well-known retailer Hi-Fi Corner (Glasgow and Edinburgh), installation company Finite Solutions (London — where Joe and team won a CEDIA Best Home Cinema award), and most recently, Chord Company (Wiltshire).

Fine Sounds UK’s Joe Gormley

DALE LINZEY

In addition, Fine Sounds has also appointed well-known industry creative Dale Linzey to the full-time role of marketing coordinator. Dale has worked independently within the audio industry for over 25 years and brings a wealth of design know-how to the business, having worked closely with hundreds of well-known audio brands in recent decades.

Fine Sounds UK’s Dale Linzey

FINE SOUNDS UK

The appointments follow last year’s expansion of Fine Sound UK’s headquarters in Fife, Scotland, to allow a greater range of HiFi and ‘CI-Fi’ products to be kept in stock and reduce customer waiting times. 2021 also saw a significant expansion of the product portfolio to include McIntosh and Sonus faber installation products. In the same year, Fine Sounds UK also became an official CEDIA partner, bringing McIntosh and Sonus faber’s CI-Fi offerings to the organisation’s accredited installers (and its customers) for the first time.

HiFi Pig Says: Congratulations to all concerned at Fine Sounds UK, we are really happy to see this distributor growing so well.

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