{"id":148,"date":"2009-08-04T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/08\/04\/awards-from-suppliers-a-closer-look\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T19:41:11","slug":"awards-from-suppliers-a-closer-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/08\/04\/awards-from-suppliers-a-closer-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards From Suppliers &#8211; A Closer Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any time we present awards at an industry event like the recent black-tie <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/asicentral.com\/counselorawards\"><em>Counselor<\/em> Awards<\/a> at ASI Show Chicago, we spend a lot of time working with the supplier designing the awards \u2013 since the pieces are treasured by recipients for a long time to come.<\/p>\n<p>This year we had the pleasure of working with the pros at Crystal D (<em>asi\/47759<\/em>), whose slogan is \u201cWe exist to turn emotions into memories.\u201d Chuck Dahlgren, president, and Angela Wurst, marketing coordinator, stood by their motto throughout the process of selecting the right awards to reflect the industry\u2019s best and brightest talent.<\/p>\n<p>I believe we don\u2019t highlight our own industry\u2019s unique products enough, so here\u2019s an up-close photo of the Person of the Year award.\u00a0 Also, a photo with me and Bonni Shevin-Sandy, president of Dard Products (<em>asi\/48500<\/em>), holding her International Person of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/asicentral.com\/counselorawards\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/POY_FINAL_Blog.jpg\" class=\"stack\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/asicentral.com\/counselorawards\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Bonni_Sandi_FINAL.jpg\" class=\"stack\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crystal D offers more than 1,000 awards and plaques, along with eight imprint methods, so the decision-making process was thorough and allowed us to customize our awards to intricately represent the caliber of individuals and firms receiving them.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Crystal D, other <em>Counselor<\/em> Awards sponsors this year were Anvil (<em>asi\/36350<\/em>), Mars Direct (<em>asi\/68888<\/em>) and The Corvest Family &#8211;\u00a0Toppers (<em>asi\/91530<\/em>), Adva-Lite (<em>asi\/32145<\/em>)\u00a0and It\u2019s All Greek To Me (<em>asi\/62960<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>To see photos from the awards ceremony &#8211;\u00a0including winners\u00a0holding the Top 40 awards &#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/asicentral.com\/counselorawards\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any time we present awards at an industry event like the recent black-tie Counselor Awards at ASI Show Chicago, we spend a lot of time working with the supplier designing the awards \u2013 since the pieces are treasured by recipients for a long time to come. This year we had the pleasure of working with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-industry-initiatives","category-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}