Peter Frost

Peter Frost is a growth champion specialising in leadership and marketing services for the independent reseller channel. Peter’s 35+ years in the industry include 18 years with Spicers Europe’s leading the office products wholesaler. In the 80’s he led their rapid growth to become the UK’s #1 OP wholesaler.

In 1990 Peter founded the UK's first marketing group OfficeSMART which was highly commended for its vision, creativity, innovative marketing and training support. Sales in 1990 were £50m ($80m) growing rapidly to £200m ($320m) in 2002. OfficeSMART’s reputation extended outside the industry with 6 successive years as winners of the prestigious Catalog Age ‘International Business to Business’ Award.

In 2003 Peter founded Proficiency Group - a marketing and leadership services company. The group organised the annual Rethink Pink marketing to women and BREAKTHROUGH marketing to the office conferences. Peter is an imnspirational speaker on sales, marketing and leadership trends. In recent years, he has presented at most progressive wholesalers, groups and reseller conferences.

Proficiency Group publishes Proficiency Post, first for breaking news analysis and opinion on the office productivity market. Proficiency Post reports research studies, trends analysis and champions best practice in marketing www.proficiencypost.com