ASI Announces Top-Performing Suppliers At Counselor Distributor Choice Awards

TREVOSE, PA – January 6, 2020 – The Advertising Specialty Institute^® (ASI) honored nearly 180 of the top-performing suppliers in the $24.7 billion promotional products industry and celebrated industry shopping bags leader Bag Makers (asi/37940) as the Supplier of the Year at the annual Counselor Distributor Choice Awards.

In addition, ASI honored the Counselor Supplier Sales Rep of the Year Charles Duggan, national and strategic accounts manager at Goldstar (asi/73295), and the Advantages Distributor Sales Rep of the Year Nick Mirabile, the vice president of merchandise and licensing at Strän Promotional Solutions (asi/337725).

For the Counselor Distributor Choice Awards, finalists are identified using the ASI Supplier Performance Ratings data. Then, ASI distributors across North America are invited to vote for their most valued supplier in each category. All told, 179 finalists qualified in 50 product categories. This year, distributors cast more than 44,000 votes, with Counselor honoring 41 different winning suppliers.

The individual winners, along with all the winning companies, were celebrated at an awards ceremony held during ASI’s yearly trade show at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.

Click here to view a complete list of winners in the 2020 Counselor Distributor Choice Awards. The Supplier of the Year profile will be in the February print and online editions of ASI’s Counselor magazine. Profiles of the distributor and supplier reps of the year appear in the January issue of ASI’s Advantages magazine.

Union, IL-based Bag Makers, the Supplier of the Year, is a perennial Counselor Distributor Choice Award winner, dominating the shopping bags category. Founder and CEO Maribeth Sandford is also a past recipient of Counselor’s Woman of Distinction and Lifetime Achievement awards.

“Maribeth Sandford and Bag Makers continue to inspire and influence the promotional products industry,” said Timothy M. Andrews, president and chief executive officer of ASI. “The Top 40 supplier remains ahead of the curve with eco-friendly offerings and innovative imprinting while always looking out for its customers.”

For more information on the Counselor Distributor Choice Awards, contact editor-in-chief C.J. Mittica at cmittica@asicentral.com.

About ASI The Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI^®) serves a network of 23,500 suppliers, distributors and decorators in the $24.7 billion promotional products industry. ASI’s flagship product, the technology platform ESP^®, manages the industry’s entire supply and marketing chain. ASI also produces award-winning digital and print content, live events and educational programs that enable companies in 55 countries to be more efficient, productive and profitable. ASI’s Counselor^® magazine provides the most authoritative business content in the industry, and the ASI Certification Program features 500+ live and online education courses for over 40,000 professionals. The company, family owned and operated since 1962, is proud to have been consistently ranked among the “Best Places to Work” in Philadelphia and Bucks County, PA. For more info: asicentral.com.