Warwick Publishing Company, located in St. Charles, Ill., has hired Bill McDonald and Gary McMillan of Athens, Georgia-based McDonald Marketing Group to represent the company in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
A 30-year industry veteran, McDonald founded McDonald Marketing Group in 1989. Previously, he was the vice president of sales for the Mid-South division of Forrester-smith. He got his start in the industry as the Atlanta district sales manager for Brown & Bigelow, a position he held for five years.
McDonald has served on the board of directors for the Georgia Association of Promotional Products Professionals (GAPPP) and Sunbelt Promotional Products Association (SPPA) as well as for Specialty Advertising Manufacturers’ Representatives Association (SAMRA). A graduate of the University of Georgia, McDonald received his BBA degree in Marketing in 1977. Contact him at (706) 254-1622 or [email protected].
McMillan joined McDonald Marketing Group in 2001 after spending 30 years with the Energizer Battery Company as general manager of customer service for North America. He received a B.A. in Business from University of Georgia. Reach him at (706) 549-6075 or [email protected].
“I have known and respected Warwick since first meeting the Paschal brothers way back in 1983, when I first started as a sales manager with Brown & Bigelow,” McDonald said. “They were a standard in the industry then, and they remain that today. I’m looking forward to finally working with my friend Phil Martin, whom I’ve known since the late ’80s, and I take great pride in representing such a well-respected company in the Southeast.”
For more information, visit www.warwickpublishing.com.
