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January 2000

Excellence Marketing Earns Rep of the Year Honors

  Costa Mesa, Calif. – QSC has named Excellence Marketing of Eden Prairie, Minn. its "Rep of the Year" for 1999 at QSC's National Sales Meeting Feb. 1. Pete Kalmen, QSC Director of Sales & Marketing, said the award is not just based on sales numbers, but rather on how well a rep firm provides complete support and service to all their customers in the contracting, retail/MI, cinema and touring/live sound industries.
Back row, left to right: QSC's Pete Kalmen, Paul Gazarian, Brian English, Barry Ferrel and Greg McLagan.

Front row, left to right: Excellence Marketing (Patrick Gilligan, Paul Cassady, Ken Simons).

"Excellence Marketing has handled their territory exceptionally well," Kalmen said. "Through strong customer support they've turned an area that previously had minimal QSC presence into one in which QSC is a prominent player across all market segments." Excellence Marketing President Ken Simons said, "We are humbled to receive this recognition. It is not a tough sale to represent any company that consistently lives up to a slogan of 'Quality, Service & Commitment' on a daily basis."
Excellence Marketing, Inc., founded by Simons in 1988 and a QSC rep since 1996, is a leading independent manufacturers' rep firm, representing audio, video, and musical instrument products to retailers, contractors and distributors in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and western Wisconsin. The Excellence staff, which includes Paul Cassady and Patrick Gilligan, is committed to achieving exceptional service through a genuine sense of care for their customers. As their mission statement reads: "As long as we continue to care about what we do, care about the people we work with and for, we will help them to be more successful, and we will be successful."
QSC Audio Products, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of power amplifiers, signal processing, digital signal transport and computer control systems for professional audio markets worldwide. For more information, contact QSC Audio Products, Inc., 1675 MacArthur Blvd., Costa Mesa, CA 92626 USA. Phone: (800) 854-4079 (USA only) or (714) 754-6175. Fax: (714) 754-6174. E-mail: info@qscaudio.com On the Web: http://www.qscaudio.com

For more information contact:
Clare Climaco
(714) 957-7168
clare_climaco@qscaudio.com
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