Wholesale Commercial Laundry Equipment S.E, the Southside, Alabama-based commercial laundry distributor, has won Continental Girbau's award for its USA distributor of the year for 2013. Coronet Equipment of Edmonton, Alberta, was named the Canadian distributor of 2013.
Continental Girbau said that these two distributors had achieved superior results in both on-premise and vended laundry sales and service.
Wholesale, which is owned by Russ Arbuckle, serves Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and also parts of Florida and Tennessee. The company is a frequent award winner.
Darling Sales & Service, in Blaine, Minnesota, received the on-premise laundry distributor of the year award for continued excellence in sales, support and service in the OPL sector.
The awards were presented during a recent Continental Girbau profit symposium.
Pictured (from left) are Joel Jorgensen, Continental vice president of sales and customer services; Mike Floyd, Continental president; Russ Arbuckle, president of Wholesale Commercial Laundry Equipment; and Ed Ziegler, Continental district sales manager, Eastern USA and Canada.
