Festo awards Premier Stockist of the Year'

Festo has announced that UK automation specialist Wearside Pneumatics has won its 'Premier Stockist of the Year' award for outstanding performance in 2005.

Festo has announced that automation specialist Wearside Pneumatics has won its 'Premier Stockist of the Year' award for outstanding performance in 2005.

The award is presented to the company within the Festo Premier Stockist network that shows the highest level of commitment to strategic campaigns, demonstrable gains in operational efficiency, and the best sales growth of Festo products for the year.

The award was presented to Steve Robinson, general manager of Wearside Pneumatics, and Jacqueline Howe, sales office manager of the company's facilities in Washington, County Durham, UK, during the Festo annual resale conference in January.

According to Stuart Gittins, Festo sales manager for Distributor and End-user Teams: "Wearside Pneumatics consistently achieves very high year-on-year sales growth, principally by providing an exceptional level of technical service to its local customer base in the north of England." This is the second award that Wearside Pneumatics has received from Festo - the company was also recently honoured for long service.

The level of service provided by all Festo Premier Stockists aims to be exemplary; only companies that meet specific Festo-defined standards are granted the title.

In particular, each stockist must operate in accordance with the ISO 9002 standard, carry guaranteed stock levels, and offer fully-trained technical support personnel and competent trade counter services.

Each stockist has direct access to the Festo European warehousing facilities, enabling them to offer customers next-day delivery of virtually any pneumatic component, from a range of over 20,000 products.

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