Twice each year, Gift for Life selects individuals who have had a significant, positive impact on the gift and home industries, then recognizes them with prestigious awards reflecting their unique contributions. It’s a pretty exclusive club, including industry luminaries, visionaries, and creatives that raise the bar high with their generosity of heart and kindness of spirit.
This year’s first honorees will be celebrated at our annual winter fundraiser, Party for Life in New York on Sunday, January 29, 2012. The big evening is looming close, so we thought it might be nice to remind you who, exactly, these fan-tab-u-lous folks are that have us so impressed. Wrapping up our four honorees is….
Brandwise
Trailblazer Award
For more than 14 years, Brandwise has been driving the innovation of technology in the gift and home industry by listening to its needs and consistently creating and providing solutions and tools to help Suppliers and Sales Reps sell more, increase efficiencies and in effect, enhancing the retailer’s buying experience.
This journey began back in 1997 when Brandwise brought sales reps out of the stone-age of hand-written orders by introducing the convenience and efficiency of scanning technology.
Ever since, the company, led by Todd and Jannetta Litzman, Chief Technology Officer Randy Quade, and Vice President of Operations Karen Radcliffe, has continually added services and tools that help automate each step in the sales channel; from showroom floor to the road, from back office functions to executive business intelligence and online where the company’s revolutionary bwconnect™ service allows retailers, reps and suppliers to collaborate online to do business. Developing this online platform was a strategic, forward-thinking investment by Brandwise towards keeping the value of the rep/retailer relationship relevant online and for the health of the Gift & Home Industry’s future.
“Todd and I, through our work with Brandwise, have always been dedicated to the health of this industry,” according to Litzman. “But it has been most gratifying working with Gift for Life, which has been literally dedicated to the health and well-being, over the years, of so many in our industry and beyond.”
Please join us in honoring Brandwise, along with our other industry leaders, by attending Party for Life or by donating in their honor. Either way, your dollars will have a positive impact, supporting the work done by DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS)—one of the country’s largest supporters of direct care for people living with HIV/AIDS and preventive education for those at risk.
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