Cox Interactive Media Promotes Chris Coda to Director of Sales, Eastern Region.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000 Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia), announced today that Chris Coda has been promoted to director of sales, eastern region. The announcement was made by Dave Hills, vice president of sales. "Chris has an excellent sales and management track record with CIMedia and a history of service to Cox," said Hills. "This promotion is yet another example of our commitment to promoting from within - Chris's extensive sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a success and leadership skills make him ideally suited to direct our eastern region's sales efforts." Coda was previously sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → for AccessAtlanta.com, CIMedia's flagship city site, leading a team of sales people focused solely on serving local advertisers. He joined CIMedia in 1996 as a sales account executive at the launch of the Atlanta city site. Before joining CIMedia, Coda served as a sales territory coordinator for InfoVentures of Atlanta, a joint venture of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC AJC Atlanta Journal & Constitution AJC American Jewish Committee AJC Arabian Jockey Club AJC American Jewish Congress AJC Australian Jockey Club (Sydney, Australia) AJC Anderson Junior College (Singapore) ) and BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Company. At InfoVentures, he was named as the top performer of 511 sales for the year, and salesperson of the quarter. Coda joined the AJC in 1991 as a sales assistant sales assistant n (BRIT) → dependiente/a m/f sales assistant (US), sales clerk sale n → vendeur/euse , and advanced rapidly through the organization to become account representative and then account executive. While at the newspaper, Coda consistently exceeded revenue goals, and received numerous honors and awards including distinguished salesperson of the year, salesperson of the quarter, and a top performer working with the AJC `s new products and specialties page sales. Coda holds a B.S. in political science from Georgia College. About Cox Interactive Media Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) has built one of the highest-ranked network of city sites in the U.S. reaching 29 percent of the total adult population and 41 percent of adult Internet users. The network consists of 70 local sites across the country with 24 in the top 50 U.S. markets. CIMedia (www.cimedia.com), headquartered in Atlanta, was launched in January 1997 and is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late , Inc. Cox Enterprises is one of the nation's leading media companies and operator of automobile auctions. In addition to CIMedia, major subsidiaries include Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, local and national direct mail advertising and customized newsletters); Cox Broadcasting, Inc., (TV, spot sales, television production, research and Cox Radio Cox Radio NYSE: CXR is a publicly traded company that holds a number of radio stations. Private company Cox Broadcasting, Inc., a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises owns all of the company's super-voting Class B common stock, and thus controls the company. , Inc. [NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CXR CXR abbr. chest x-ray CXR, n chest x-ray; an image of the thoracic cavity, produced by an irradiation scan of the upper torso. ]); Cox Communications, Inc. ([NYSE: COX] cable distribution, programming, telephone and high-speed Internet access services); Manheim Auctions, Inc., which operates auto auctions in North America, Europe and Australia; Cox Enterprises also owns an equity stake in a range of Internet businesses, including AutoTrader.com, the world's largest source of used car listings for dealers and consumers. |
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