DALLAS — Two trade expertise pioneers have been named the 2023 Trade Achievement Award winners by Present for Life.
Todd and Jannetta Litzman had been acknowledged as this 12 months’s winners of the award on the 72nd annual Retailer Excellence Awards on June 21 in Dallas. Present for Life’s Trade Achievement Award, which has been offered at Presents & Ornamental Equipment’ REA occasion since 2009, acknowledges general excellence and contribution to the reward and residential trade as a thought chief, standard-bearer, or general trade influencer.
“Jannetta and Todd Litzman have served our industries for greater than 25 years and pioneered a lot of the technological improvements that type the muse of our wholesale ecosystem in the present day,” stated Ari Lowenstein, Present for Life board chair, who offered the award to the Litzmans together with Present for Life founder, Peter Schauben. “Gross sales businesses, reps, manufacturers, patrons, and repair suppliers alike have benefited from their steady and devoted engagement. Present for Life is proud to honor them with this prestigious award.”
Retailer Excellence Awards fundraising celebrating the Litzmans as Present for Life’s 2023 honoree has topped $15,500 for World Central Kitchen, a crisis-related starvation aid company. Contributors embody Blue Q, Inventive Co-Op, Darrah & Co., Eller Enterprises, Fieldstone Advertising, High quality Traces J. Douglas, J Grob Associates, Fundamental Avenue Reps, MarketTime, Subsequent Step Reps, Gross sales Producers, Sugar B, Taylors, Terry Moore & Associates, Schauben & Co., and lots of others. Donations in Warren’s honor can be accepted by July 10 at https://donate.wck.org/REA2023.
The 2023 Retailer Excellence Awards acknowledged winners in seven retail classes, in addition to particular distinctions for Gross sales Consultant of the Yr and Producer of the Yr. Particulars and a full itemizing of winners can be found at https://www.retailerexcellenceawards.com/.
Gift for Life was based in 1992 by a small group of reward trade professionals responding to the tragic lack of pals and colleagues due to AIDS. Since then, Present for Life has raised almost $6M for AIDS analysis and schooling, and HIV/AIDS prevention and therapy with charity companions AmfAR (American Basis for AIDS Analysis) (1992-2007) and DIFFA: Design Industries Basis Preventing AIDS (2008-2020). In 2021, with COVID-19 quickly inflicting cancelation of in-person occasions at trade markets, Present for Life pivoted in direction of on-line digital occasions with a selected emphasis on COVID-related starvation aid. In 2023, the all-volunteer group will proceed to assist packages that tackle starvation aid. Extra data is on the market at www.facebook.com/giftforlife.
Based in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen (WCK) makes use of the ability of meals to nourish communities and strengthen economies in instances of disaster and past. In 2020, with COVID-19 straining conventional meals safety security nets like faculty feeding packages, metropolis companies and meals banks, WCK pivoted to soundly distribute individually packaged, recent meals in communities that want assist and launched the Eating places for the Folks program to scale nationwide. This program meets crucial wants on two fronts: shopping for meals straight from eating places and delivering them to People who need assistance. Thus far, this system has labored with 2,500 eating places to serve over 12 million restaurant meals and has disbursed greater than $135 million {dollars} on to eating places house owners in 400 cities throughout 35 states. For data, go to www.wck.org.
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