Bayside Beverage honored with MillerCoors President’s Award
March 23, 2011
MillerCoors President Tom Long recently awarded Bayside Beverage with the MillerCoors President's Award in front of some 2,000 fellow distributors from across the country.
The President’s Award was presented at the annual MillerCoors Distributor Convention held March 23 in San Antonio, Texas. MillerCoors recognizes sales excellence by rewarding the top 32 performing distributors from across the five MillerCoors sales regions with the coveted President’s Award.
“These awards provide an opportunity to release your competitive spirit and show the entire MillerCoors system what your organization can accomplish. These are the heroes of 2010,” said Long. “These teams persevered, and won, through some of the toughest times and competed in some of the meanest markets in the country.”
“I couldn’t be more proud of our team at Bayside Beverage,” said Steve Arbaugh, President of the beer and wine distribution company. “We employ 36 very talented men and women who work on behalf of our retailer partners here in northern Michigan, day in and day out, and they performed at the highest possible level in 2010. Every container recycler, every merchandiser, every warehouseman, every delivery driver, every manager, everyone in our front office, every salesperson...every one of them deserves 100% of the credit for achieving this lofty goal, because every one of them leaned into it as a team.”
It is a lofty goal. MillerCoors has 500 distributors nationwide who are eligible for the President’s Award. Only 32 are declared winners. Bayside Beverage is the only winner from Michigan, and one of 140 eligible distributors in the Great Lakes Region, an 11 state area that generated seven President’s Award winners. This is Bayside Beverage’s second President’s Award, having first earned it in 2003.
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