Ewing Foley, Inc., Cupertino, Calif., was awarded General Cable’s 2012 Electrical Distribution Channel Agent of the Year at the recent annual conference of the National Electrical Manufacturers Representatives Association (NEMRA) Annual Conference that was held in Chicago last month. Serving the West Coast and Pacific Northwest industry for more than 50 years, Ewing Foley represents General Cable’s Carol Brandportable cord, cordsets, electronics, building wire, data, low-voltage and 5kV to 35kV medium-voltage industrial, tray and instrumentation, and CCW Continuously Corrugated Welded cables.
At the NEMRA conference, General Cable also presented the Agent Inside Sales Associate of the Year Award and Director’s Club Agent Awards. Ira Shapiro of Thea & Schoen, Clifton N.J., won the Agent Inside Sales Associate of the Year. Director’s Club Agents include all independent manufacturers’ reps who met and/or exceeded year-over-year sales in both adjusted sales dollars and metal pounds, as well as experienced gross margin performance in at least one of two specific categories. The 2012 winners are: Byron Carson Co. Inc., Memphis, Tenn.; Coresential, Tampa, Fla.; C.C. Pierce Co., Inc., Duxbury, Mass.; Continental Sales & Marketing, San Leandro, Calif.; EMMCO & Associates Inc., Houston; ET Cable Sales & Associates, Petersborough, N.H.; Ewing Foley Inc.; Gaynor Sales & Associates, Minneapolis; Gobeille-Robinson Inc., Mansfield, Ohio; Rains Electrical Sales Inc., Shawnee Mission, Kan.; Thea & Schoen; William Bleiman & Sons Inc., Conshohocken, Pa.; and Young & Champagne, Detroit.