Ben E. Keith Foods Announces DSR of the Year

FORT WORTH, TX (September 1, 2011)—Ben E. Keith Foods recently honored its outstanding salespeople for 2010-2011 at the annual Sales Recognition Banquet held at the Four Seasons Hotel & Resort in Las Colinas. District Sales Representative (DSR) Damon Webb, based in the San Antonio Division, won the prestigious Johnny Beauchamp Award, presented to the DSR of the Year.

Webb was selected from a field of approximately 460 DSRs. He has been with Ben E. Keith Foods for four years, and serves customers throughout Houston, with emphasis on the Museum District, Montrose and Heights. He was also named the San Antonio Division’s DSR of the Year for 2011.

Ben E. Keith Foods, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is the nation’s eighth largest broadline foodservice distributor, and is comprised of six distribution centers servicing eleven states.

 
Photo, L to R: Senior VP Keith Pittman, President Mike Roach, Johnny Beauchamp Award Winner Damon Webb, Executive VP Jim Lavender, and Senior VP Ron Boyd.

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