good company with bad local agents - Showroom Manager Natuzzi Employee Review

3.0
Aug 23, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

well known brand name with excellent leather products

Cons

I'll speak about the Egyptian agent (Image Group) who have the Natuzzi franchise in Egypt :- - doublicating the prices is one of the big negatives there. - promotional discounts are usually applied on fake prices to minimize the real discount. - there are no compensation policey in case of delivery delay. - in case of item's damage, a local repaire is performed without the client knowledge. - bad treatment to staff and workers ( salaries, wroking hours, transportation fees, problems respond ) - the products information that HQ sent periodically is complex and ain't easy to interpret. - no periodic staff training on new products or collections.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

The local showroom team is pleasant, and the product line has a decent legacy name in the luxury market, but the corporate infrastructure completely undermines it.

Cons

There is a profound disconnect between the high-level operational turnarounds corporate management expects and the compensation they are actually willing to offer. The salary caps are incredibly low for the New York luxury market, which makes sense given that the company received a formal deficiency notice from the NYSE for falling below minimum market capitalization and shareholders' equity thresholds. The internal corporate culture feels completely stagnant, cash-strapped, and unstable. Management is highly disorganized; decisions and hiring pipelines are dragged out indefinitely with zero respect for a professional’s time. They are content to extract strategic turnaround blueprints and 90-day market roadmaps during the interview process, but they lack the financial infrastructure and executive capability to back them up. A frustrating, dead-end environment that is clearly struggling from the top down.

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