News from the Woodworking Machinery Industry Association                              April 2003

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Mikron Woodworking Selected Partner of the Year

Jeremie Paulin (left) and Lynn Arbuthnot (right) of Mikron Woodworking accept WMIA's 2003 Partner of the Year Award from Mike Mendenhall.

WMIAâs Distributor Division announced the winner of its 2003 Partner of the Year Award during the April 9-12 Woodworking Industry Conference in St. Petersburg. This yearâs recipient is Mikron Woodworking, based in Renfrew, Ontario.

The award, initiated in 1994, was presented by Mike Mendenhall, a member of WMIAâs Marketing Committee and president of California Woodworking Machinery, a WMIA distributor member company. Lynn Arbuthnot, Mikron Woodworkingâs director, sales and marketing, and Jeremie Paulin, Mikron Woodworkingâs sales manager, accepted the award.

 

In announcing the award, Mendenhall said, ãEach year WMIA distributor members nominate woodworking machinery manufacturers and importers and rank them by 30 different criteria in five significant support areas ö financial, sales and product, service and parts, marketing and training. Then the distributor members of WMIAâs Marketing Committee tabulate the nominations, calculate the total value of the rankings, and factor in other considerations such as the number of distributor liaisons maintained. To be considered, each nominee must receive at least five nominations. Based on these quantitative rankings, the Partner of the Year is selected.

Mikron Woodworking has been designing machinery to serve the woodworking industry for five years, backed by its manufacturing operation which has been in business since 1965.

   

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