Sales Excellence Awards Honor Top Sellers at IMRA April 02, 2008
By Alex Palmer
To cap off this year's IMRA Marketing Conference, Leo Jakobson, senior editor for Incentive magazine, presented the 14th Annual Sales Excellence Awards, sponsored by Incentive and sister publication Sales & Marketing Management. The awards were determined by the manufacturing members of IMRA, who chose which sales firms went "above and beyond…and set the bar for performance," Jakobson explained. The awards were separated into five categories and the winners, who came to the front of the Rancho Bernardo Inn's banquet hall to be honored with a Waterford vase were:
• Top Revenue Growth Producer: Cassidy & Company
• Top New Business Developer: Great Lakes Incentive Group
• Top in Customer Service: Pilgrim Promotions, Ltd.
• Top Innovative Program Development: Gretsch Incentives
• Most Indispensable: Award Marketing Services, LLC (for the second year in a row)
A final award was given to IMRA's newly promoted executive director, Kate Marie, for her efforts on the conference and throughout the year.