Ben E. Keith names DSR of the Year

Date: October 9, 2009

(Fort Worth) – Ben E. Keith Foods recently honored its outstanding salespeople for 2008-2009 at the annual Sales Recognition Banquet held at the Four Seasons Hotel & Resort in Las Colinas. District Sales Representative (DSR) Franke Hilson, based in the Little Rock Division, won the prestigious Johnny Beauchamp Award, presented to the DSR of the Year.

Hilson was selected from a field of approximately 460 DSRs. He has been with Ben E. Keith Foods for six years, and covers central Arkansas including Little Rock, Conway, and the resort areas of Fairfield Bay and Greer’s Ferry Lake. He is a three time Gold Medallion winner, a Silver Medallion winner, and was twice named DSR of the Year by the Arkansas Division.

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 ID, L to R: Senior VP Keith Pittman, President Mike Roach, Johnny Beauchamp Award Winner Franke Hilson, Executive VP Jim Lavender, and Senior VP Ron Boyd.