Today, in our humble and more limited ways, Nelson King helps make positive change happen not only to the profits of our Clients through recruiting the HOTCATS of FMCG, but also to the careers of the high-potential candidates who stay in touch with us long term for access to the best opportunities within the leading FMCG companies.

Headhunting board level and senior Sales, Marketing and Category people in the FMCG niche, we recruit for many of the high profile, world leading companies.  But we also headhunt for Clients with high profile, strong brands not so process-driven or blue-chip.  This mixture gives us an enviable portfolio of brands to recruit for across a wide range of sectors in FMCG.

What is FMCG today?                                            Fast Moving Consumer Goods 

When Nelson King started 12 years ago, our Clients consisted totally of the big blue-chip branded businesses that sold products selling fast off the shelves of supermarkets:  Gillette, Kodak, Birdseye Walls, Lever Faberge, Allied Domecq, Kerry Foods etc.

Then we started to notice that other companies, less traditionally FMCG, wanted to recruit the skills and disciplines they knew we could find from the large food and drink companies:  Dyson, Sony and Black and Decker and others started to use us to find high calibre talent.  They were selling through the grocery mults and wanted our 'niche expertise' in their pursuit of excellence in accounts, brands and category management skills at top levels.

More recently we started to see even more widening of the FMCG niche.  Home Entertainments companies like Grenada Home Video.  MGM, 20th Century Fox wanted our niche expertise, as did Toy companies selling to the grocers.  Then companies selling ring tone downloads and phone credit on plastic cards and wide screen TV's to the grocers used us and the FMCG niche was blown wide open.

So now our clients include the branded and own label manufacturers of products to the Food and Drinks, (including foodservice), DIY, Entertainments, Health & Beauty, Cosmetics and Fragrances, non-food, Pharmaceutical, Toy, Electrical Appliances sectors.  And because of our unique headhunting referral methods, we could search wider than these sectors too.

More and more the high calibre sales and marketing people, trained in the classical FMCG companies, are being appointed to the boards of companies not so FMCG.  These board level people respect the expertise of the people they used to know in their old training grounds.  They seek them out through Nelson King who has headhunted successfully in these areas for nearly 11 years.

Mission Statement
As a values-driven, permanently improving service, Nelson King will continue to be relied upon to recruit HOTCATS and provide the best value for money in board level and senior FMCG sales, marketing and category management.

VALUES DRIVEN
Nelson King operates always with integrity, fairness, humanity and respect towards Clients and Candidates alike.

We never recruit from companies for whom we have recruited within the last two years; and even then never before we have contacted you to ascertain our status as 'Recruiting Partner or Not'.

Our Clients and Candidates are kept informed at all stages as to progress in all searches on at least a weekly basis.  Our Candidates are given honest but sensitive feedback after their interviews with both Nelson King and the Clients they visit. 

150 EYESIGHTS AND LIVES SAVED ON EVERY PLACEMENT
Every single placement through Nelson King saves at least 150 lives in the third world.  Nelson King donates the money to APOC, The African Program for Onchocerciasis Control.  "River Blindness", once contracted, has no cure.  Victims can take up to 60 months to die, with intolerable itching over most of the body surface and progressive blindness.  Yet a single tablet, administered once a year, controls the disease, prevents blindness and saves the life of the recipient.  Nelson King is proud to be associated with APOC.   

HOTCATS
PEOPLE WHO 
Hugely Outperform The Category At Their Seniority
They have outstanding track records and often outstanding academic records too.

BEST VALUE FOR MONEY
The very best combination in FMCG recruitment of four criteria:

A ccuracy:  calibre and suitability of candidates,
R eliability:  consistency of delivery of HOTCATS to Clients,
C harges:  we deliver HOTCATS charging less than agencies delivering mediocrity.
S peed:  delivering the winning shortlist in 10 days is not unusual.