Year: 2022

2022 GAWDA Northwest Regional Meeting Stevenson, WA

GAWDA 2022 Central Regional Meeting Maumee Bay, Toledo, OH

Garry Sears, President of Eleet Cryogenics, Inc., won’t be displaying the company’s most recent Leonard Parker Pool Safety Award in the lobby. Rather, he says, it will go in the room where employees congregate for monthly safety meetings. That way, whenever they gather, “They get to look at the wall and see those awards that they’ve achieved,” he says. “This belongs to them.”  Eleet Cryogenics, based in Bolivar, OH, has earned the distinguished honor three times. Sponsored by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., the awards are presented annually to the participating CGA member companies that have recorded the greatest improvement…

“I would prefer to work independently with little to no supervision.” “It feels like our CRM is there to look over my shoulder and track everything I am doing.” “I wish we could get rid of all these internal meetings where we discuss territory plans and do pipeline and deal reviews. I just want to focus on selling instead of being micro-managed.” Do any of these statements sound familiar? These statements are a common sentiment that managers are hearing from their salespeople. The movement in sales today – especially due to remote working over the past few years – is a…

MWSCO (Mississippi Welders Supply Co.) is excited to announce we are opening our newest store in Appleton, Wisconsin. Our new store location will be at 3900 N Providence Ave, Appleton, WI 54913 and is planned to open August 2022. MWSCO continues to grow in distribution and service, providing solutions for industrial gas, welding, automation, vendor managed inventory, fire protection, and beverage CO2. We have four stores in Minnesota, one in Iowa, and this will be our seventh in Wisconsin. “We are committed to ethically growing our business to serve our customers, our fellow team members, and our communities. We embrace…

Read the full article by clicking here. Bill Herbert, owner of Quality Erectors, was working to grow his fabrication and erection company but was struggling to keep his labor force trained and his machines consistently running.  QEC has a focus on bringing projects in on time and within budget. However, Bill was frequently sending machines out of state to be repaired, causing down time which was costly to his company.  He was also experiencing poor service and support from his gas supplier and was wasting time reconciling invoices and overpaying for gas tanks. He was putting in the work but not…