Peter Barry has been involved in technical sales and marketing most of his working life, selling specialised micro-imagery systems with Bell and Howell and Agfa back in the early 80’s, before being lured into the pest world in 1987 by Rentokil Pest Control, South African.
Studying through Technisa, he attained his National Certificate in Pest Control, and went on to train technicians and sales surveyors whilst working his way through the ranks. A Business Management Diploma attained from the South African Institute of Management enabled him to develop his career to a senior level, leading a large multi- sited team along the eastern seaboard of South Africa. Thereafter gaining a transfer to Rentokil New Zealand in 1999, he continued to work for them in management roles in Wellington and Auckland, until joining Fumapest Limited in 2003, as their Divisional Manager. Fumapest was acquired by Ecolab Pest Elimination in 2007, where he remained in various corporate technical sales and marketing roles until his departure in 2012.
Peter was instrumental in developing the Sales and Marketing plan for Fumapest in New Zealand , and later Ecolab across both New Zealand and Australia, growing their respective Corporate Account Profiles by securing new contracts with major commercial customers, such as Progressive Enterprises (Countdown), The Warehouse Group, Hubbards Foods, Auckland District Health Board, Sanitarium Foods, Coca Cola, Lion Breweries, Goodman Fielder Group, Ports of Auckland, Oceania Group, Radius Healthcare, St Pierre’s Sushi, McDonalds and Spotless Catering to name a few.
In 2012, Peter set himself up as an independent commercial pest management specialist consultant to support the pest management industry and end-user companies that want professional pest management training, development and programme site auditing.
He currently supports a number of smaller pest management companies across New Zealand in their commercial focus, and has carried out pest management training for specialised food producers like Jack Links New Zealand, Turks Poultry Farm Limited, Miraka Limited (Milk) and the distribution management team of Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited, at their Pest Prevention Workshop in March 2014. Peter worked has worked with The Warehouse Group, and with WineWorks, Marborough.
Since 2005, Peter has served as an elected executive on the board of the Pest Management Association of New Zealand; compiles their bi-monthly newsletter ‘What’s Buzzing’; provides technical advice and training, and convenes their Biennial Conference, the last three being 2013, 2015 and 2017. The next one is 2019 in Auckland.
Studying through Technisa, he attained his National Certificate in Pest Control, and went on to train technicians and sales surveyors whilst working his way through the ranks. A Business Management Diploma attained from the South African Institute of Management enabled him to develop his career to a senior level, leading a large multi- sited team along the eastern seaboard of South Africa. Thereafter gaining a transfer to Rentokil New Zealand in 1999, he continued to work for them in management roles in Wellington and Auckland, until joining Fumapest Limited in 2003, as their Divisional Manager. Fumapest was acquired by Ecolab Pest Elimination in 2007, where he remained in various corporate technical sales and marketing roles until his departure in 2012.
Peter was instrumental in developing the Sales and Marketing plan for Fumapest in New Zealand , and later Ecolab across both New Zealand and Australia, growing their respective Corporate Account Profiles by securing new contracts with major commercial customers, such as Progressive Enterprises (Countdown), The Warehouse Group, Hubbards Foods, Auckland District Health Board, Sanitarium Foods, Coca Cola, Lion Breweries, Goodman Fielder Group, Ports of Auckland, Oceania Group, Radius Healthcare, St Pierre’s Sushi, McDonalds and Spotless Catering to name a few.
In 2012, Peter set himself up as an independent commercial pest management specialist consultant to support the pest management industry and end-user companies that want professional pest management training, development and programme site auditing.
He currently supports a number of smaller pest management companies across New Zealand in their commercial focus, and has carried out pest management training for specialised food producers like Jack Links New Zealand, Turks Poultry Farm Limited, Miraka Limited (Milk) and the distribution management team of Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited, at their Pest Prevention Workshop in March 2014. Peter worked has worked with The Warehouse Group, and with WineWorks, Marborough.
Since 2005, Peter has served as an elected executive on the board of the Pest Management Association of New Zealand; compiles their bi-monthly newsletter ‘What’s Buzzing’; provides technical advice and training, and convenes their Biennial Conference, the last three being 2013, 2015 and 2017. The next one is 2019 in Auckland.
