Pride Family Brands presented awards to its high-performing sales-representation team during the 2012 Chicago International Casual Furniture & Accessories Market™. The 2012 Pride Family Brands Sales Representative of the Year Award went to Bill Heckman of Heckman Marketing, a Pride representative for Arizona and Southern Nevada. This award recognized overall excellence in customer service, territory and sales growth, and superior product knowledge of the company’s Castelle brand. Heckman, who began Heckman Marketing in 1990, has been a member of the Pride sales team since 2009.

Steve Tunnicliffe, Pride’s representative for Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Western Pennsylvania, was recognized with a Prospecting Award. Tunnicliffe, who has been a member of the Pride sales team since 2000, saw the highest increase in new-customer development during the 2012 season.

The Most Improved Territory Award for 2012 was given to Phil Spring. As a 23-year veteran of the industry and owner of AllSpring Sales and Marketing, Spring represents Pride to the Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia (excluding Atlanta) region. He has been a member of the Pride sales team since 2008.

The awards were presented by Rory Rehmert, vice president of sales and marketing. “Once again, Pride is proud to recognize the superior work of individuals within our sales team,” he says. “Although the awards recognize individuals, at the same time, we acknowledge that it is the hard work and professionalism of our entire network of sales representatives that have created the position of leadership that Pride holds within the industry.”