Ann Doherty has been appointed sales account manager for wine bottles at Saxco Pacific Coast in Vancouver, WA. She will be directly responsible for the day-to-day sales function and new account development with wineries throughout the state of Washington.

Prior to being appointed at Saxco Pacific Coast, she was employed as sales & wine club manager for Kestrel Vintners, of Prosser, WA, an independent winery specializing in premium and ultra premium wines. Before that, she was sales territory manager for Issaquah Dental Laboratory, Novadent Company, of Seattle, WA. Her responsibility included operations and logistical management of a high volume dental laboratory overseeing a sales territory encompassing 350 plus dentists and dental offices in Western Washington.

She also served as territory manager for Proctor & Gamble-Professional Oral Care, also of Seattle, where she was responsible for servicing 1,450 dental offices in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska for Oral-B and Crest professional product lines. In addition, she was an account manager for The Gillette Company-Professional Oral Care in Seattle, where she was responsible for sales of for the Oral-B preventive product line to 1,300 dental offices in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

She was educated at Bellevue College and Teton Technical Institute and is a resident of Prosser, Washington.

Founded in 1991, Saxco Pacific Coast specializes in wine and beer bottles for wineries and micro-breweries in the Northwest. The company is the leading distributor for numerous glass bottle manufacturers throughout the world. Saxco Pacific Coast is an affiliate of Saxco International, Horsham, PA, renown world-wide packaging specialists for the wine and spirits industry. Saxco Pacific Coast is located at 3812 NE 112th Avenue, Ste. 100, Vancouver, WA 98682 and can be reached at 360-892-3451 or on the web at www.saxcopc.com.