DENVER, Colorado (March 9, 2012) – Joe Assell, CEO, President, and co-founder of GolfTEC, the world leader in golf improvement, will be a featured speaker at the 10th annual Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference, to be held March 13-14, 2012, in Englewood, Colorado.
The conference, focusing on the theme “Leading Resilient Growth,” will celebrate successful business leaders who have seized new opportunities and prospered despite continuing economic ups and downs.
Assell, who co-founded GolfTEC in 1995, has a compelling growth story to tell. The company’s system-wide sales are up 500% between August 2005 and August 2011.
GolfTEC’s same-store sales growth is no less impressive: In fiscal 2010, sales-store sales-that’s without opening any new improvement centers, simply how existing centers are increasing sales-grew 13.4%; in 2011, the rate of growth was 15%. And in 2012, only five months into the company’s fiscal year, same-sales growth is already up 8.1%, with the height of the golf season yet to come.
January 2012 was GolfTEC’s 29th straight month of same-store sales growth.
GolfTEC will be the subject of the conference’s opening session, being held on Tuesday, March 13, at 9 am. Presented as a “fireside chat” entitled “Innovating Growth,” Assell will discuss how GolfTEC gained its dominant market share, has regularly grown sales at double-digit rates, and jumped from a start-up with one employee to more than 500 employees and projected sales of $60 million in 2012. Moderating the session will be Dorothy Donnelly, National Marketing Director, Hein & Associates LLP.
The conference’s keynote speech will be delivered by Carly Fiorina, former Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company.
The Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference, sponsored by Association for Corporate Growth/Denver, the region’s premier business association, will be held at The Inverness Hotel, in Englewood, Colorado.
About GolfTEC
The undisputed leader in high-tech golf improvement, GolfTEC gives more than 25% of all golf lessons in the U.S. annually and has a 95% success rate among its students. The 500 GolfTEC Personal Certified Coaches at 150 Improvement Centers nationwide have given more than 3.3 million lessons since 1995. All lessons are based on the company’s “Five Factors”: Fact-Based Diagnosis, Sequential Lessons, Video-Based Practice, Advanced Retention Tools, and Precision-Matched Clubs. GolfTEC Improvement Centers can be found in almost all major U.S. cities, Mexico, and Canada, with new centers opening this year in Japan and Korea.
Contact:
Karen Moraghan
Hunter Public Relations
kmoraghan@hunter-pr.com
908/876-5100
