{"id":1002,"date":"2011-05-19T15:14:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2011-05-19T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:14:59","slug":"honoring-marty-lott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2011\/05\/19\/honoring-marty-lott\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Marty Lott"},"content":{"rendered":"

No question, this is industry is populated with a lot of outrageous characters. You know who you are! And then there\u2019s Marty Lott<\/a>, the quietly assured president of Top 40 apparel supplier SanMar \u2013 and Counselor<\/em>\u2019s just-named 2011 Person of the Year.<\/p>\n

I think you can tell a lot about someone by the way they handle a crisis. A big reason why we chose to honor Marty at Wednesday night\u2019s Counselor <\/em>Awards in San Diego is for the way he managed his company throughout the recent cotton crisis.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

His undisputed leadership abilities were also on full display while tackling inventory issues affecting so many in the industry. These are but two fine examples in a long career chock full of inspiring moments.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to view Counselor<\/em>‘s Person of the Year profile of Marty Lott.<\/p>\n

We had a terrific time at the black-tie awards ceremony, held for the first time at the awe-inspiring San Diego Air & Space Museum. In addition to honoring Marty and our International \u201cPerson\u201d of the Year, Billy Dolan and Vivian Lo of Camsing Global, Counselor<\/em> magazine unveiled its annual Top 40, the ranking of the largest suppliers and distributors in the industry.<\/p>\n

This year’s distributor list is headed up by Staples Promotional Products (asi\/120601<\/em>) and the supplier Top 40 is lead by Norwood (asi\/74400<\/em>) & BIC Graphic North America (asi\/40480<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to view the 2011 Top 40 distributors and click here<\/a> to see the Top 40 suppliers. Click here<\/a> to see photos of all the action.<\/p>\n

Today is the first day of exhibits<\/a> at the San Diego show and tonight we\u2019ve got comic Wayne Brady<\/a> live on stage. \u00a0Friday promises to be another action-packed day. And then it\u2019s on to Chicago<\/a>, July 19-21.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re at the show, let me know what you\u2019ve seen and done by posting a comment or emailing me here<\/a>. I\u2019m also on Twitter<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No question, this is industry is populated with a lot of outrageous characters. You know who you are! And then there\u2019s Marty Lott, the quietly assured president of Top 40 apparel supplier SanMar \u2013 and Counselor\u2019s just-named 2011 Person of the Year. I think you can tell a lot about someone by the way they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-news-about-asi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}