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nearly 1,000 nominations for this accolade from snow sports
retailers nationwide.
Nine regions were identified for retailers to vote for the snow
sports rep they felt most deserving. This year’s SnowSports
Regional Rep of the Year winners will be recognized at the SIA
Fall Education Seminars held in three locations throughout
the U.S. Each winner will receive a commemorative plaque
recognizing their commitment to the industry, and they are:
Wacoal Sports Science Corp., makers of CW-X
Conditioning Wear, has appointed Black Water Designs
(BWD), a division of Barrett Marketing Group Corporation,
as its exclusive Canadian distributor. BWD, based in Toronto,
is also the Canadian licensee of Sierra Designs and Ultimate
Direction and the exclusive distributor for Karrimor products.
BWD has been in business more than 25 years in the specialty
outdoor retail market and nine years in the specialty running
retail market. For more on BWD, contact Chad
Smith at chads@blackwater.ca.
At the same time it announced the departure
of longtime employee Martin Wilkinson, who
REGION
Atlantic (N.Y., Pa., N.J., Del., Md.)
Eastern Lakes (Mich., Ohio, Ind.)
has taken a position with Mountain Khakis as
Midwest (N.D., Minn., Wis., S.D., Iowa, Ill., Neb., Mont., Kan., Okla.)
the newest member of their sales division,
Outdoor Sports Marketing announced the Northeast (Me., Vt., N.H., Mass., R.I., Conn.)
hiring of two new team members.
Whit Clifford will be joining Outdoor Sports
Northern California
Northwest (Wash., Ore., Idaho, Mont., Alaska)
Marketing covering Georgia, Southern Alabama
Rockies (Wyo., Utah, Colo., N.M., Texas)
and South Carolina, while Justin Sams will be
serving Outdoor Sports Marketing’s retailer base South (W.Va., Va., Ky., Tenn., N.C., S.C., Ga., Ala., Miss., Fla., Ark., La.)
in Florida. Whit can be reached at 912-536-1299 West (Southern California, Nev., Ariz., Hawaii)
or whit@outdoorsportsmarketing.com, and
Sams at 904-477-0458 or justin@outdoorsportsmarketing.com.
And finally … now in its third year, The SnowSports
Industries America’s SnowSports Regional Rep of the Year
Award recognizes those sales reps in the snow sports industry
that have successfully fostered relationships with retail
storefronts to help move winter sports products. SIA received
WINNER
Rob Haggerty
Broc Johnson
Scott Ladwig
Brad Sellew
Craig Wingard
Dustin Anderson
Rob Howland
Mitch Chilton
Bob Stanislaus
Voting for the regional rep award began in late July with
surveys sent out to nearly 10,000 retail storefronts. Nomination
criteria focused on five main components including: relationships
with retail shops; communication with retailers; proactively
helping stores manage inventory; conducting shop clinics; and
timely response to retail shops’ calls and emails.
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