John Canington is a Marketing Strategist with 20 years experience growing companies to their next level. A marketing strategist creates a visual roadmap for companies to grow incrementally, while always keeping them in their core competency.
John has an MBA and was trained by Proctor & Gamble. He was responsible for rolling out Folgers Coffee from Texas to Georgia. As National Sales Manager for Coca-Cola, John was involved in the Diet Coke rollout strategy for the Independent Supermarket segment in the U.S.
John has experience starting up a software company that analyzed retail categories and developed the strategy that eventually allowed the company to be sold to A.C. Nielson Co. He has run two large companies ($200 – $650 million) as CEO and was able to grow each company to the next level.
Seeing the need for someone to create marketing strategies that incrementally grew companies, he started a consulting firm which has enabled him to help 15 different industries in the Fortune 500 as well as the mid-market companies. For the last ten years, he has focused on the mid-market companies. There he has developed marketing strategies to both grow companies out of problems as well as defend companies against their competition.