LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., February 19, 2003 - Cooper Wiring
Devices has recently been recognized with two prestigious
"2002 Vendor of the Year" awards from two distinct retail
market segments. The first one was announced earlier this
year by Ace Hardware, which is presently the largest volume,
member-owned cooperative in the hardware industry. This
award will be presented at the Co-op's Las Vegas March
in March.
In addition, at its executive council meeting today in
Colorado Springs, Distribution America (DA) announced
that Cooper Wiring Devices (CWD) Consumer Division has
been selected from a group of forty potential suppliers
as its Electrical Vendor of the Year Award winner for
2002. DA's membership of nationwide wholesale organizations
accounts for $2.4 billion in sales. The award recognizes
all aspects of CWD's service to member distributors, including
its management involvement, high product quality, sales
support and excellent service levels. This is the second
consecutive year that CWD was honored with this outstanding
recognition by Distribution America.
ACE Hardware, a dominant hardlines co-op with 5,000 member-owned
retail outlets throughout the world encompassing seventy
countries, also chose CWD for its Electrical Vendor of
the Year 2002 Award. Darren Fischer, ACE electrical buyer,
confirmed that CWD was the top selection among Ace's purchasing
and merchandising managers from a field of just over three
hundred electrical suppliers. He added that CWD's consistently
high performance through 2002 clearly placed them among
Ace's top five overall vendors.
"These two significant awards," says Rick McDonnell, Vice
President of CWD Consumer Sales, "recognize the exemplary
performance of all levels throughout our organization
- our people, products and our focused dedication to providing
each of our customers with an unsurpassed level of service."
Cooper Wiring Devices is a leading manufacturer of more
than 10,000 electrical products supplied for residential,
commercial and industrial applications.
PRESS CONTACT:
Andrew J. Lazarus
A. J. Lazarus Associates, Inc.
15 West 36th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10018
212-904-1379/fax: 212-904-1386
ajl@ajlazarusPR.com
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