Wednesday, March 1, 2017

ZEISS Hires Todd Bailey

NORTH CHESTERFIELD, VA. - Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, the world's leading manufacturer of high performance sports optics, is pleased to announce that effective February 27, 2017, Todd Bailey has been hired to the position of National Sales Manager – Sports Optics Division.

Bailey's responsibilities will include managing the sales effort of the Sports Optics Specialty Sales Division, which primarily consists of Warehouse Distribution as well as the ZEISS Independent Hunting and Shooting-Sports dealer direct network.

"Todd brings will him a wealth of knowledge and experience in the effective management of a very similar sales and distribution model," stated Tom Andrews, Vice President – Sports Optics, Carl Zeiss SBE, LLC. "He is also a seasoned veteran in directly managing the relationships of the vitally important independent dealer base. I'm fully expecting Todd to have a very positive and immediate impact to our business and anticipate that he will bring a ton of value to our distribution and retailer stake holders."

Bailey most recently comes to ZEISS from the Thule Group, where he served as their Work Gear Division, Director of Sales. Todd also shares a deep passion for the outdoors and he has been an avid hunter and sports-shooter since his youth.

"I feel as if I've spent my entire professional career preparing for this opportunity," said Todd Bailey, National Sales Manager – Carl Zeiss Sports SBE, LLC. "I'm ready and excited to accept these new challenges and look forward to developing strong partnerships within our industry."





For media and press relations, please contact:

Joel Harris – Head of Global Public Relations
Carl Zeiss SBE, LLC
Sports Optics Division
Phone: (804) 425-8466
E-mail: joel.harris@zeiss.com
www.zeiss.com/press
www.zeiss.com/us/sports-optics
www.facebook.com/CarlZeissHuntingUS





About ZEISS
ZEISS is an international technology group in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. The ZEISS Group develops and distributes semiconductor manufacturing equipment, measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetarium technology. With its solutions, the company constantly advances the world of optics and helps shape technological progress. ZEISS is divided up into the four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Research & Quality Technology, Medical Technology, and Vision Care/ Consumer Optics. ZEISS is represented in over 40 countries and operates more than 30 production sites, over 50 sales and service locations and about 25 research and development facilities.

In fiscal year 2015/16 the company generated revenue approximating €4.8 billion with around 25,433 employees. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. Carl Zeiss AG is the strategic management holding company that manages the ZEISS Group. The company is wholly owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation).
Additional information is available www.zeiss.com

Consumer Optics
The Consumer Optics business group combines the company's business with camera and movie lenses, binoculars, spotting scopes, hunting optics and planetarium technology. It is represented at the Oberkochen, Wetzlar and Jena sites. The business group is allocated to the Vision Care/Consumer Optics segment. In fiscal year 2015/16 the segment generated revenue of €1.007 billion with around 9,100 employees.