{"id":143,"date":"2009-07-22T10:02:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/07\/22\/counselor-awards-honors-distributor-salespeople\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:33:49","slug":"counselor-awards-honors-distributor-salespeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/07\/22\/counselor-awards-honors-distributor-salespeople\/","title":{"rendered":"Counselor Awards Honors Distributor Salespeople"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I stand on stage at a fabulous venue during an ASI Show and look out on a black-tie crowd ready for our annual <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/counselorawards\"><em>Counselor <\/em>Awards<\/a> and I feel exactly the same way: \u00a0thrilled.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/asicentral.com\/counselorawards\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/CA.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The awards recognize the best and the brightest in our industry &#8211; the outstanding individuals and companies really making their mark.Which is why in choosing the highly-anticipated Person of the Year award we made an extraordinary decision in a nod to a more challenging year: \u00a0rather than select just one individual, why not honor a group of individuals that&#8217;s having the biggest impact in these times?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those people are our distributor salespeople and our 2009 Person of the Year is &#8220;The Distributor Salesperson&#8221; &#8211; every blockbuster distributor rep at every distributorship in our industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Distributor salespeople are making the most significant impact on the market by approaching business in a unique way in these challenging economic times and we highlighted these ten qualities at the ceremony that successful reps exemplify in their work everyday:\u00a0 tenacious, sincere, charismatic, passionate, resilient, empathetic, consultative, creative, organized and loyal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other big winners of the 2009 Counselor Awards are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International Person of the Year -Bonni Shevin-Sandy, president, Dard Products (asi\/48500)<\/li>\n<li>Distributor Entrepreneur of the Year &#8211; Derek Block, president and CEO, Touchstone (asi\/345631)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Supplier Entrepreneur of the Year &#8211; Eric Levin, president, Jetline, (asi\/63344)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Distributor Woman of Distinction &#8211; Laura Forbes, president, Zebra Marketing (asi\/365683)<\/li>\n<li>Bess Cohn Humanitarian Award &#8211; Linda McCabe, president, Incentive Gallery (asi\/230734)<\/li>\n<li>Supplier Family Business of the Year &#8211; Blue Generation (asi\/40653)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Marvin Spike Lifetime Achievement Award &#8211; Jim Moore, senior vice president of sales, Molenaar (asi\/71980)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also revealed the Top 40 Distributors and Top 40 Suppliers rankings &#8211; the largest companies in the industry based upon 2008 revenue. \u00a0And the <em>Counselor<\/em> Product Design Awards winners were recognized for their innovations in cutting-edge product design and functionality.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To see more photos from the awards event, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/counselorawards\">asicentral.com\/counselorawards<\/a>.\u00a0 To view the complete Top 40 Distributors and Top 40 Suppliers rankings, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stateoftheindustry.com\/\">www.stateoftheindustry.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/awards1.jpg\" class=\"right\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I stand on stage at a fabulous venue during an ASI Show and look out on a black-tie crowd ready for our annual Counselor Awards and I feel exactly the same way: \u00a0thrilled. 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