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Norwood Announces New Catalog Organization With Norwood Edge

Norwood Promotional Products, based in Indianapolis, announced the launch of the Norwood Edge, a new service offering that will make their distributors’ business easier and more profitable. The Norwood Edge is a set of solutions focusing on simplifying distributors’ day-to-day business with Norwood, it gives distributors reduced extra charges, expanded customer-service hours and a new organization for the company’s most powerful sales tool, its print catalogs. The reorganization of the company’s catalogs is the most significant piece of the Norwood Edge. Previously, Norwood’s print catalogs were organized by their popular industry brands. For example, Norwood RCC Koozie had its own catalog, Norwood Souvenir had

Norwood Shows Support For Industry With Platinum Donation To PPEF

Irving, Texas-based Promotional Products Education Foundation (PPEF) announced that Norwood Promotional Products of Indianapolis has committed to join the PPEF Tomorrow Fund at the platinum level with a $120,000 donation to be paid over the next 12 years. “Our platinum level donation to the PPEF Tomorrow Fund sends the message that we are investing in and are committed to the promotional products industry, and we value higher education,” said Paul Lage, MAS, president of Norwood Promotional Products. “Because education has been a centerpiece for the Association and the industry, Norwood, as one of the largest industry suppliers, has the responsibility to be a leader

Regina Harrington, East Coast inside sales representative at Norwood, shows new products in the company’s V-Line, RCC Koozie and Jaffa collections.

Norwood introduces a plethora of new products for 3rd and 4th quarter in several of its lines.

Norwood Expands Sales Staff

Norwood Promotional Products, Indianapolis, recently announced a number of additions to its sales staff. Joel Jahns joined the Norwood field sales team as account manager, covering the state of Wisconsin. Prior to joining Norwood, Jahns served as the national sales manager at Mille Lacs Corporate Gifts (Gourmet Foods) in Sun Prairie, Wis., and the national accounts manager at Admanco, Ripon, Wis. Norwood has also added four inside sales representatives to its team. Christopher Dell will cover the states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Dell has more than 13 years of sales and management experience.

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2007 Supplier Excellence Awards

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Improved Rebate Program to Replace Long-Running Norwood Rewards

Norwood Promotional Products, Indianapolis, will replace its points-for-purchase program (Norwood Rewards) with an improved rebate program. Norwood has earmarked the funds used to operate its Rewards program for an expanded 2008 Distributor Volume Rebate Program. Distributor principals will be contacted directly with details about the new rebate program. Norwood Rewards was launched in 2003 with the intent of creating a positive incentive for distributor salespeople to sell Norwood products. The program, however, has generated some concerns from distributor principals. “We’re committed to honoring the supplier-distributor principal relationship,” noted Paul Lage, Norwood president. “[Norwood Rewards] is perceived to be in conflict with that relationship and we want

Norwood Expands Executive Team

Norwood Promotional Products, Indianapolis, has announced the promotion of Kelly Rezansoff to the newly created position of vice president of customer relations and Richard Cordaro has joined the company as vice president of pharmaceutical sales, also a newly created position. According to company personnel, Rezansoff’s position was formulated to “cultivate, implement and measure processes that will create highly responsive customer care throughout Norwood.” As the executive leader for the front-end teams at the company’s five manufacturing locations, Rezansoff’s primary objective is to achieve Norwood’s mission of delivering a positive distributor experience. “Customer experience is our number one priority. Given that our customer service

Simone Joins Norwood’s Executive Staff

Norwood Promotional Products, Indianapolis, announced today that Jim Simone has been hired as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Simone has held key marketing roles in the promotional products industry for more than 16 years, including management positions with several distributorships. He most recently served as the marketing and merchandising manager for Oriental Trading Company where he created the company’s highly successful promotional products division. “We’re building our executive team around high-caliber, industry-focused individuals,” noted Paul Lage, president. “This isn’t the same team that was in place a year ago. Jim brings a critical distributor perspective to our organization. He knows what distributors

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