More Than 200 Awards Presented at the Sir Speedy and PIP Annual Convention
MISSION VIEJO, CA—July 22, 2008—Franchise Services, Inc. is pleased to announce that more than 200 franchise owners and salespeople from around the world received awards at the annual Sir Speedy and PIP International Convention and Vendor Show at the Westin Diplomat in Fort Lauderdale, FL, July 9-12. Don and Bernadette Sanders of Amarillo, TX, received the Sir Speedy “Franchisee of the Year” award and Frank and Clarice Petrellis of Kissimmee, FL, received the PIP “Franchisee of the Year” award.
Jim Corliss, Jerry Hogan and Jose Tafur of Braintree, MA, received the Sir Speedy “Top Volume” award and the Fulner Family of Indianapolis and Nashville, TN, received the PIP “Top Volume” award. Awards were also given to franchisees and salespeople in the following categories: Top 10, Top 25, Volume Increase Percentage, Century Club, Million Dollar Club, Sales Achievement Awards, and Application Innovation Awards.
“All of our award winners are leaders not only in our franchise network but within our industry and their local business communities. They have achieved success because of their professional and personal commitment to providing exceptional service to their customers,” said Richard Lowe, president of Sir Speedy. “I am very proud of all of our top achievers.” Other highlights of the annual Convention included keynote speaker, Neal Petersen, entrepreneur, award-winning author and solo around the world-racing yachtsman, who spoke at the opening general session on Thursday, and Kate Dunn of the Print On Demand Initiative (PODi) and Barb Pellow of InfoTrends who both spoke about the relevance of offering marketing services for today’s print service providers.
“The messaging throughout this year’s conference was focused on educating our franchisees on our new strategy which will help them build their customers’ businesses by providing superior marketing solutions using efficient web-to-print and integrated direct marketing tools,” expressed Catherine Monson, president of PIP.
At the International Vendor Show, which is the largest trade show of any quick printing franchise company, 100 leading companies in the printing and graphic arts supply industries exhibited including, Canon, Heidelberg, Hewlett Packard, interlinkONE, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Mohawk and Xerox, who demonstrated their new DocuColor 700 digital color press for the first time in the United States since its unveiling in Düsseldorf, Germany at Drupa in June. The convention ended with an awards banquet to honor the top franchisees.
Franchise Services in a franchise management company that owns the Sir Speedy and PIP brands. Products and services offered by Sir Speedy and PIP franchises include traditional printing, copying and mailing services, as well as value-added offerings such as web-to-print solutions, integrated direct marketing tools, promotional products and more. Sir Speedy and PIP centers help companies meet their business growth objectives from lead generation, customer retention and reactivation to brand management and more. Sir Speedy and PIP are part of a worldwide printing network that spans nearly 800 centers in 16 countries.
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