FRANKFURT (ri) Textile sales professionals from different product areas participating in the SalesPro Games 2012 can look forward to valuable prices
totalling more than EUR 10,000 – including a trip to the Olympic Games in London.

The initiative is hosted for the first time by the Foundation OEKO-TEX® in cooperation with the Bundesverband des Deutschen Textileinzelhandels (German Association of the Textile Retail Trade, or BTE), and is aimed at textile retailers in eight European countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain). Interested sales personnel have until 15 May 2012 the possibility to register for the competition at www.oekotex. com/salespro free of charge, download the necessary training materials for the Baby & Junior, Day- and Nightwear & Outerwear and Home textiles, and complete the test. The objective of the SalesPro Games is to communicate comprehensive information regarding textiles that have been tested for harmful substances, along with general sales techniques. Working with these training materials allows participants to directly apply this information when speaking to customers, and hence optimise the quality of their advice and sales successes. In the advance round, participants representing a product range will be competing at the European level. They will be asked to answer 15 questions. The 50 participants with the highest number of points per product area will qualify for the next main round. This means that in June 2012, the 150 best experts from the Baby & Junior, Day- and Nightwear & Outerwear and Home textiles areas across Europe will be competing for valuable prizes.
Each participant of the SalesPro Games will also receive a certificate and a documentalso with his or her participant number. Using the QR code indicated in the document, consumers will be able to vote for "their" retailer, and will also have an opportunity to win a valuable prize. At the 2012 SalesPro Games, textile sales professionals working in different product areas will be comparing their knowledge with that of their colleagues from eight European countries. Winners of the 2012 SalesPro Games can look forward to prizes totalling over EUR 10,000 – including a trip to the Olympic Games in London.

 

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