“This is the Progressive Group Alliance quarterly newsletter dedicated to the Service Provider and PRO-Vision Market Programs” Writes Callie Redford.

See Foodservice Rewards’ coverage on page 4 of the July issue to all of Progressive Group’s distributor members.

In addition, here are Big Mike’s July ’08 distributor program updates:

Current Counts:

  • 340 Distributors (50 in June)
  • 2,536 Distributor Sales Reps (44 in June)
  • 3,658 New Operators (120 in June)
  • 1,130 Additional Operators Attached to DSR Accounts

    • Recent Travels/Presentations:

  • Dot Foods Show – St. Louis, MO
  • Sysco Albany Sales Meeting – Albany, NY
  • Merchants – SC Sales Meeting – Newberry, SC
  • FSA Corporate – Scottsdale, AZ
  • Pate Dawson Sales Meeting – Clinton, NC
  • Martin Brothers Sales Meeting – Cedar Rapids, IA
  • Ettline Foods Show – York, PA

    • News:

    Golbon: Offered to have us at their member trade show and featured on their newsletter

    Federated: Conversations continue

    Food Services of America: Met on 6/19. Great feedback. They want to roll the DSR program out to all DSRs at all 12 houses and back it through corporate communications

    Institutional Food House (#14 in the US) and Sysco Pittsburgh joined FSR

    P&G has decided to offer local distributor promos to their Tier A distributors

    Nestle Canada DSR promotion from 4/1-6/30/08 resulted in a significant increase in participating operators and incremental cases redeemed

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