{"id":2298,"date":"2016-06-06T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asi2.wpenginepowered.com\/uncategorized\/asi-announces-counselor-power-50-for-2008\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:38:06","slug":"asi-announces-counselor-power-50-for-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asicentral.com\/press-releases\/asi-announces-counselor-power-50-for-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"ASI\u00ae Announces Counselor Power 50 for 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/h1>\n<p><em>Annual Ranking Recognizes Most Influential Leaders in Advertising Specialty Industry<\/em><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p><strong>TREVOSE, PA \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>November 11, 2008<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Advertising Specialty Institute\u00ae, the largest media and marketing organization serving the advertising specialty industry, announced today its annual <em>Counselor<\/em>\u00ae Power 50 ranking to recognize the industry\u2019s most influential leaders.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Counselor<\/em> Power 50 is an impressive group of executives who have redefined innovation at their companies, are setting the pace for the marketplace and whom other distributors and suppliers emulate in their best practices.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking is determined by a panel of editorial experts at the award-winning <em>Counselor<\/em> magazine.\u00a0 The panel first sent a survey to industry distributors and suppliers, asking them to nominate potential newcomers to the list and to also indicate whether those on last year\u2019s list should move up or down, or be removed. \u00a0It also carefully weighed other factors, such as nominees\u2019 achievements throughout the year and the health of their companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received many comments about the <em>Counselor<\/em> Power 50 list,\u201d said Timothy M. Andrews, president and chief executive officer of ASI.\u00a0 \u201cDistributors and suppliers like to tell us who should move up or down in the rankings as well as who should be moved off the list entirely.\u00a0 Our readers are not shy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s group was announced at the second ASI Power Summit, an exclusive event attended by over 200 executives and business leaders from around the globe who discuss issues vital to the advertising specialty industry, identify best practices and determine ways in which the industry can productively move forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The top-ranked executive in the 2008 <em>Counselor<\/em> Power 50 ranking is Marty Lott, president of SanMar; followed by Eric Bensussen and Jay Deutsch, president and CEO, respectively, of Bensussen Deutsch &amp; Associates, Inc.; and Paul Lage, MAS, president and CEO of Norwood Promotional Products.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Distributors and suppliers can learn more about the lessons learned from these successful leaders and timely initiatives at their companies in the upcoming issues of <em>Counselor<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Nominees for the list can be either ASI members or non-members, and nominations can be made by a representative working at any advertising specialty company in North America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the complete <em>Counselor<\/em> Power 50 ranking for 2008, visit <a href=\"\/power50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asicentral.com\/power50<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information, contact Rich Fairfield, publisher for<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>ASI, at <a href=\"mailto:rfairfield@asicentral.com\">rfairfield@asicentral.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About ASI<\/strong><br \/> Advertising Specialty Institute is the largest media and marketing organization serving the advertising specialty industry, with a membership of over 25,000 distributor firms (sellers) and supplier firms (manufacturers) of advertising specialties.\u00a0 Supplier firms use ASI print and electronic resources to market products to over 21,000 ASI distributor firms.\u00a0 Distributor firms use ASI print and electronic resources, which contain nearly every product in the industry from more than 3,500 reputable suppliers, to locate supplier firms and to market services to buyers.\u00a0 ASI provides catalogs, information directories, newsletters, magazines, websites and databases, and offers e-commerce, marketing and selling tools.\u00a0 Visit <a href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.asicentral.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Ranking Recognizes Most Influential Leaders in Advertising Specialty Industry TREVOSE, PA \u2013\u00a0November 11, 2008\u00a0&#8211; 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