Broker/Consultant - County South Business Brokers
Charlotte, North Carolina Area
- Current
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- Broker/Consultant at County South Realty & Business Brokers
- Owner at Merritt Designs & Illustrations (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Senior Artist & Illustrator at Charlotte Design Group, Inc.
- Senior Artist at Logotel, Inc.
- Senior Artist at Signal Apparel Corp.
- Creative Art Director at American Marketing Works, Inc.
- Creative Director at Capitol Graphics, Inc.
- Art Director at Capitol Graphics, Inc.
- Education
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- East Carolina University
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Joel Merritt’s Summary
Licensed Real Estate Broker with County South Business Brokers. Specializing in the sale of Convenience Stores, Gas stations and Motels.
Company owner, Graphic designer for the apparel industry, Illustrator, Graphic designer for the off-set printing industry. Have worked with many major licensed properties, and theme parks, as well as public schools and private industries.
Joel Merritt’s Specialties:
Multi-Party negotiations, finding the best agreement that can be made between parties, and seeing it through to closing. Working closely with my clients to keep them abreast of any information on the business listings they have with County South. To contact me for listing information, please call 704-302-5252 (cell)
Branding and Identity, web design, Illustration, layout and pre-press for the apparel industry. Much more than can be listed here! Call me! 888-278-6580
Joel Merritt’s Experience
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Broker/Consultant
County South Realty & Business Brokers
(Real Estate industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
Commercial Real Estate & Business Broker - specializing in the sale of Convenience Stores, Gas Stations, and Motels. Other properties include Coin Laundries, Dry Cleaners, restaurants, Commercial Property and Miscellaneous businesses. www.countysouth.biz
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Owner
Merritt Designs & Illustrations (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)
May 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)
Graphic Designs and Illustrations for such clients as Caribbean Soul (now Goin' Coastal), Kersusso (Christian Activewear), Maryland Screenprint, Joe Blow, ScreenworksUSA, and many others. Expert in Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand,& Dreamworks, with a high proficiency in Flash, Poser, Illustrator, and many other grahics and 3-D modeling programs. Creating full apparel programs from concept through finished garment, shipping to multiple locations. Handle all aspects of the busisness, including a high proficiency in Quickbooks Pro.
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Senior Artist & Illustrator
Charlotte Design Group, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)
1997 — 2004 (7 years)
Developed graphic designs and illustrations from concept through finished art and pre-press for the apparel industry. Worked directly with clients who sold direct to Disney, Universal Studios, Paramount Parks, Busch Gardens, Harley-Davidson, Coca-Cola, NASCAR, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and Collegiate Licensing Corp. to name a few. Also responsible for all of the IT and MIS within the office. Responsible for all of the company purchasing, and US Patent & Trademark submissions.
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Senior Artist
Logotel, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Responsible for the creation of art from concept through pre-press for licensed properties such as Dr. Suess, The Three Stooges, South Park, Hobie and many others.
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Senior Artist
Signal Apparel Corp.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
Responsible for the creation of art from concept through pre-press for licensed Professional Sports properties such as NFL. MLB, NBA, and NHL, plus all colleges licenses through Collegiate Licensing Corp.
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Creative Art Director
American Marketing Works, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
1994 — 1995 (1 year)
Created Graphics and Illustrations from Concept through finished art for Magic Johnson Tees Division. Worked with all major Sports franchises, including NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL. Our art was edgy and was sold in the best sports outlets like Sports Authority, and Footlocker.
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Creative Director
Capitol Graphics, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years)
Responsible for the creation of all designs/apparel lines for collegiate apparel company. My designs took the company from 7 million per year to 13 million per year. Also created designs for Professional Sports through our dstributor arrangement with Trench Manufacturing, the success of my designs made us the #1 distributor for Trench within 3 months.
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Art Director
Capitol Graphics, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
1991 — 1992 (1 year)
Responsible for Creative and Production Art departments. Managed 8 people with their production art responsilbilties, brought the company into the age of graphics computing. My designs were responsible in part for the companies growth from 4.7 million per year to over 7 million per year.
Joel Merritt’s Education
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East Carolina University
BFA, Graphic Design, Illustration, Sculpture (Minor), 1980 — 1986
Tenor Soloist & Chancel Choir member at Jarvist Memorial Methodist Church, Member - InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Member of Faith & Victory Church, Worked for Pizza Transit Authority and Chanelo's to put myself through design school.
- Activities and Societies:
- Design Associates - member
Additional Information
Joel Merritt’s Websites:
Joel Merritt’s Interests:
forming new relationships, building and nurturing existing relationships,creating great designs and illustrations, working with today's youth, sharing the love of Jesus Christ.
Joel Merritt’s Groups:
Lutheran Youth Organization - Adult Advisor South Central Cluster,
Joel Merritt’s Honors:
1989 Bronze Golden Squeegee Award - SPAI
Joel Merritt’s Contact Settings
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