around the industry People Tacony Appoints Manager Tacony Corporation has announced the hiring of Patrick Cronin as a new national account manager. Cronin, who has been in the JanSan industry for nearly 20 years, will represent three of the company’s key product lines: CFR Corporation, Tornado Industries and Powr-Flite. Rossignol, marketing director of manu-facturing; Amy Walker Barrs, marketing director of health care and customer fac-ing markets; and Rob Hughes, marketing director of product management. consultant and founder of the Chemical Free Cleaning Network (CFCN), will col-laborate with Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in presenting the first Chemical-Free Cleaning Expo. On February 21, 2012 at the NSU campus in Davie, Florida, guests will be introduced to the entire spectrum of new technologies that enable building sanita-tion to be achieved with plain tap water and science. Carlisle Names President Carlisle FoodService Products (CFSP) has named Carol Lowe as president. As president, her duties will include gov-erning the CFSP product portfolio, devel-oping and overseeing strategic plans and driving enhancements to the organization. AH&LA Welcomes New Chairman HD Supply Facilities Maintenance recently announced that Geoff Feingold, director of Geoff Feingold national accounts for hospitality, has been appointed chairman of the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s (AH&LA) Allied Executive Council (AEC). Feingold, who brings to the role more than 23 years of hospitality industry experience, will serve a two-year term as AEC chairman. Advance Advertisement Wins Award Advance has announced that its Adfinity REV Random Orbital Floor Scrubber adver-tisement has been selected as a 2011 Silver Davey Award winner by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA). With nearly 4,000 entries from across the U.S. and around the world, the Davey Awards honor the finest creative work from advertising agencies and companies worldwide. Betco Hires VP Of Sales Betco Corporation has announced that Bob Gail has joined the company’s executive management team as senior vice president of sales. Gail has held senior executive sales, marketing and general management posi-tions with such recognized companies as NCR Corporation, Newell Rubbermaid, Katy Industries and, most recently, APC Filtration Inc. Unisource Welcomes VP Of Facilities Supplies Unisource Worldwide Inc. recently announced that James Martin has joined the company as vice president of facilities supplies for national accounts. Martin joins Unisource with more than 20 years of senior level leadership positions in sales, marketing and product management. News ProTeam Receives Award At the 2011 ISSA/INTERCLEAN North America trade show, ProTeam Inc. was recognized with the Best Customer Service Award. Distributors, building service contractors, in-house service providers and other attend-ees voted by ballot for the companies they thought provided the best customer service among all 645 exhibitors during the event. This is the second consecutive year ProTeam has won the Best Customer Service Award. Staples Launches e-commerce Site Staples Advantage has announced the launch of its new e-commerce site to enable businesses to consolidate suppliers and achieve savings. The site offers numerous tools and reports designed to help organizations man-age best-in-class procurement programs for a complete business solution. KCP Strengthens Brand Kimberly-Clark Professional recently com-pleted a series of marketing personnel moves to reinforce their commitment to helping distributor partners better serve their end user customers. The following leaders have been named to new positions in North America market-ing leadership: Andy Clement, marketing director of offices and education; Stephanie Chemical-free Cleaning Expo Nears Vince Elliott, a leading cleaning industry To have your News and/or People item con-sidered for CM e-News Daily and “Around the Industry,” please e-mail your release to Managing Editor Aaron Baunee at [email protected]. To sign up for the free CM e-News Daily e-mail, log on to www.CM-eNews.com. 6 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • December 2011
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