Sample Letter to CEO for Extension in Achieving Sales Goal

If you or your team has not been able to achieve the sales goals that were given to you by the company then you can always write a letter to your boss or manager or CEO requesting for an extension in achieving the sales goals.

In this post, we have come up with a sample letter to CEO for extension in achieving sales goal. You can use this sales letter format for drafting a personalized letter. Follow this sample sales letter format for extension of time.

Sample Sales Letter Example to CEO for Extension in Achieving Sales Goal

Format for Letter to Boss to Increase Sale Target

From:

Richard Smith

Sales Manager

New Health and Wellness

New York

Date: September 4th, 2026

To,

Mr. Henry Brown

CEO

New Health and Wellness

New York

Dear Mr. Henry,

Greetings!

I am writing this letter to request you kindly allow us an extension of one month in achieving the sales target that were given to us for the last quarter. The targets for the said quarter were of 5000 units for my team and my team has been working very hard on achieving it. For the previous quarter, the target was 4200 units and my team did a sale of 4500 units and it was our team only which submitted the proposal of extending the sales targets for the last quarter because they know that they have the potential to reach that number.

But due to unforeseen circumstances, our team has not been able to achieve the targets despite working hard on it. As you know that there has been a wide outspread of dengue in our city and around 8 of our team members were suffering from dengue the last quarter because of which we were short on the hands and our team was not able to deliver what was promised. Additionally, there was a two day holiday that was announced by the Government because of the elections that took place in this quarter.

All these reasons led to lesser working hours and lesser working hands for us and we were able to only make a sale of 3800 units. We are still short of 1200 units and we strongly feel that if we get an extension of two weeks, we will be able to meet this target.

On behalf of my team, I would like to request you to kindly give us an extension of two weeks more and we will achieve the targets given to us. I hope you can understand that the reasons mentioned above are all genuine and our team was in a real tough spot to make it happen.

I will be very thankful if you could accept my request and allow us this extension. Will be looking forward for a positive response.

Thanking you.

Sincerely,

Richard Smith

Sales Manager

New Health and Wellness

New York