IMARK announces Distinguished Performance Awards
IMARK Group recognized the following member companies and suppliers for distinguished performance during its most recent fiscal year. The award winners were announced on Oct. 15 in Scottsdale. The members listed below were recognized for their effective implementation of IMARK marketing and training programs and their support of IMARK preferred suppliers.
Member(s) of the Year: Dakota Supply Group, Fargo, N.D.; Alameda Electric Supply, Hayward, Calif.; Blazer Electric Supply, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Associated of Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
Excellence in Sales and Marketing: Mars Electric, Willoughby, Ohio; Inline Electric Supply, Huntsville, Ala.; Griffith Electric Supply, Trenton, N.J.; Yesco Electric Supply, Youngstown, Ohio; and Phyl-Mar Electrical Supply, Canyon Country, Calif.
GainShare Achievement: Elliott Electric Supply, Nacogdoches, Texas; Alameda Electrical Distributors, Hayward, Calif.; Villa Lighting Supply, St. Louis; and Yale Electric Supply, Canton, Mass.
Purchasing Power Award: Summit Electric, Albuquerque, N.M.; AAI, Auburn, N.Y.; Sequel Electrical Supply, Meridian, Miss.; and FSG Lighting, Austin, Texas.
IMARK recognized the preferred suppliers listed below based on the results of a member ranking process and for their effective implementation of IMARK marketing, communications and training programs and for their support of IMARK members.
Supplier(s) of the Year: Acuity Brands Lighting, Conyers, Ga.; RAB Lighting, Northvale, N.J.; and NSi Industries, Huntersville, N.C.
Excellence in Marketing and Communications: Leviton Manufacturing, Melville, N.Y.; Ideal Industries, Sycamore, Ill.; Klein Tools, Lincolnshire, Ill.
Sales Leadership: Acuity Brands Lighting, Conyers, Ga.; Arlington Industries, Scranton, Pa.; Ilsco Cincinnati; Klein Tools, Lincolnshire, Ill.
Excellence in Service and Support: Pass and Seymour/Legrand, Solvay, N.Y.; 3M Electrical Products Division, Austin, Texas; and Ilsco, Cincinnati.
Excellence in On-Line Training: GE Industrial-Energy Solutions, Plainville, Conn.; Hammond Power Solutions, Baraboo, Wis.; and Littelfuse/Powr-Gard, Chicago.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.