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Pictured touring the mills at Brown Company are, I. to r., A. E. "Fred" Sullivan, Plattsburg, N. Y.; Loren Cook, Omaha, Neb.; Lloyd Skinner, Topeka, Kan.; Matt Roll, Cincinnati, Ohio — all contest winners. Hundreds of salesmen throughout the United States recently went "all-out" to help boost the sale of Brown Company's famous Nibroc Towels. The contestants included Brown Company salesmen as well as representatives from the many distributors throughout the country who handle Brown Company's Nibroc Towels. A final tabulation of contest results indicated that there were 102 Nibroc Towel Distributors participating, involving 611 salesmen. The contest among the distributor salesmen was set up in two categories and a separate series of prizes was awarded for each category. Prizes were awarded to contestants with the highest number of cases sold to new customers and also to contestants who contacted and sold towels to the greatest number of new customers. Nearly 4.500 new Nibroc Towel customers were added to Brown Company's sales records and over 19,000 cases of Nibroc Towels were sold to these new customers during the contest. Fifty-nine prizes were awarded for total number of cases of Nibroc Towels sold by the contestants and 33 prizes were awarded for new accounts opened.
After contest tabulations were completed the two winning distributor salesmen from each category were invited to visit and tour our plants here in Berlin. Later, an informal testimonial dinner was held at the Ravine House to honor the four prize winning contestants. Several Brown Company men were present to welcome and congratulate the star salesmen. First prize for total number of cases sold to new accounts was awarded to Matt J. Roll, Chatfield Paper Corporation, Cincinnatti, Ohio. He lives in Dayton, Ohio. As a young man he was a star left-halfback with the Xavier football team and won the Legion of Honor in the athletic field. Matt was a Marine in World War I and fought in the famous battle of Chateau Thierry. The winner of second prize for total number of cases was Lloyd Skinner, who works for the Carpenter Paper Company in Topeka, Kansas. Lloyd is an ardent civic worker, particularly in Boy Scout work and spent this year's vacation in New Mexico at a camp for advanced scouting. The first prize winner in the total number of new accounts classification was Loren Cook, who works for Carpenter Paper Company in Omaha, Nebraska. Loren has established a fine reputation with Carpenter for his successful activity in the Hastings area, since he has no great industrial activity and his volume must come from the smaller type account. He has been with Carpenter for 35 years. Second prize new account winner was A. E. "Fred" Sullivan, who represents L. H. Buck Company in Plattsburg, New York. Fred's territory is the resort area of upper New York and he does some selling in the City of Plattsburg. He attended Gorham, (N. H.) High School and shortly after graduating, worked at Cascade mill under Arthur Brosius. Pictured with two of the salesmen is "Bill" LaRose, Towel Sales Manager, watching operation of towel machines. Men pictured above are following cases of towels from the towel room via conveyors into boxcars for shipping.
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