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Cheri Partridge
Natalia Lidovskikh
Steve Woodburn,
MAS
Kirk Ross
Robert Plante
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JamesK@ppai.org.Prime Resources Corp.
(UPIC: PRIME)—
Randy Evans
,
vice president of supply chain,
and
Steve Woodburn, MAS
,
Southeast regional sales manager
for Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi
and Puerto Rico
Pro Towels
(UPIC:
PROTOWELS)—
Lauren Slee
,
marketing coordinator
RiteLine, LLC
(UPIC:
RiteLine)—
Larry and Kyle
Krause
of LDK Marketing to be
the company’s representatives in
Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas,
Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico,
Oklahoma and Texas;
Stephen
Elias
of Elias Marketing, Inc., in
Minnesota, North Dakota and
South Dakota;
Joe Keely, MAS
,
of Select Lines Marketing, in Iowa
and Nebraska;
Dan Alspaugh
of
Promotional Partnering Group in
Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan,
Ohio and West Virginia; and
Mike Rubin
and
Rob Craxford
to represent it in Connecticut,
Delaware, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
Vermont, Virginia and
Washington, D.C.
Seville Gear
(UPIC:
SEVILLE)—
Claude Cote
of
Exoset, Inc., to be the company’s
representative in Quebec;
Dennis
Lee
of Dennis Lee Agency in
southwest Ontario;
Darren Storr
of Infinity Sales Group in the
greater Toronto Area;
Scott
Blankenship
of Blankenship
Marketing Group in Arkansas,
North Texas and Oklahoma;
John Butler
of JB Solutions West
in Southern California;
Marc
Sabin
of Marc Sabin Marketing in
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico,
Utah and Wyoming;
Scott
Schaefer
of Robert S. Schaefer,
Inc., in western Pennsylvania and
Upstate New York;
Larry White
of Dynamic Professional
Resources in Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri and Nebraska; and
Sharon Wohlleber
of Sharon
Wohlleber Sales in South Texas
and Louisiana
Source Abroad by Prime
(UPIC: sourcea)—
Michael Blatt
,
regional sourcing manager
Spector & Co.
(UPIC:
SPEC0038)—
Natalia Lidovskikh
,
communications specialist
Starline Industries, Inc.
(UPIC: STAR0009)—Pro-Dev
Strategies and Marketing to rep-
resent the company in the
Ottawa/Gatineau, Canada region
Stromberg Brand
(UPIC:
1ASTRMBG)—
Lisa Bennett
to
represent company in Illinois and
Wisconsin;
Greg Jackson
,
Pat
Dore
and
Alan Rice
of Northwest
Reps to represent company in
Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon
and Washington; and
Cory
Schroepfer
,
John Bugele
and
Richard Schmidt
of Bridge
Marketing Services to be its rep-
resentatives in Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Ohio, South
Dakota and Wisconsin
Towel Specialties
(UPIC:
TOWLSPEC)—
Kirk Ross
, vice
president of national accounts
Zagwear, Inc.
(UPIC:
ZAGW0001)—
Marty Frasco
, vice
president of global supply chain,
and
Rodney Watson
, sales at its
Chicago, Illinois, office
IN MEMORIAM
Louise Woerner Sellers,
CAS
, past owner of
Sellers
Advertising
, passed away
January 19. She was 102. Sellers
was featured in
PPB
’s October
2012 issue, sitting down with the
magazine to reflect on her 40-
plus years in the promotional
products industry.
In that interview, Sellers said
that she entered the industry in
1950 as a widow with two chil-
dren hired to work as a secretary
for Dallas, Texas-based J. Hugh
Campbell Company, which was
mainly known for flags and
badges. The company was com-
monly called The Flag Store.
After spending 12 years at
Campbell and proving herself
by, among other things, person-
ally sewing 1,700 red satin
garters for a film production
client, Sellers was asked to
become a partner in the firm.
Preferring not to share,
Sellers opted to buy the company
in 1962. She was 50 years old. A
year later her son, industry
notable Steve Sellers, MAS,
joined her and the two created a
new division of the Campbell
Company called Sellers
Advertising. This new division
focused solely on promotional
products and served Dallas-area
advertising agencies and compa-
nies such as Southwest Airlines
and Texas Instruments. Sellers
continued working at the firm
until she was in her eighties, and
the business stayed in the family
until 2011.
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