DCNE Honors Totaline with Award of Recognition
Contact: Mike Dziok, Totaline Marketing Manager
315.432.7213
michael.dziok@totaline.com
SYRACUSE, NY, June 23, 2008 — Distributor Corporation of New England (DCNE) recently honored the Replacement Components Division of Carrier Corp. (Totaline) with an award to recognize its exemplary performance and service.
Product manager for OEM parts and 37-year DCNE employee Charlie Bassett presented Totaline representatives and brothers Jim Witz, Zone 1A and international sales manager, and John Witz, zone sales manager, with the award at DCNE headquarters in Malden, Mass.
DCNE surprised the Witz brothers with the award during a May visit. “It was completely unexpected,” said Jim Witz. “Charlie presented RCD with the award for our work and our loyalty.” John Witz was the DCNE Totaline salesperson for several years prior to Jim Witz taking over the account last September.
The award, which reads “With gratitude to the Replacement Components Division of Carrier Corp. in recognition of more than 45 years of exemplary performance and service as DCNE’s parts and supplies provider,” is the first award that DCNE has presented to a vendor.
“We’ve wanted to do this for a while,” said Jerry Murphy, DCNE parts division manager. “RCD’s professionalism and ease of doing business have helped forge a strong and meaningful relationship with us.” Totaline has been a provider of quality HVAC products for 20 years.
“We grew our business with RCD and formed a strong relationship,” said Greg Kolligian, DCNE vice president of sales and marketing. “We wanted to honor them for years of reliability and service.”
Owned and operated by the Kolligian family since 1963, DCNE serves Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Eastern Massachusetts. It provides a full line of commercial and residential HVAC products, Totaline parts and supplies, and has branches in Westwood, Mass., Salem, N.H.; Westbrook, Maine; Cranston, R.I.; and a parts store at its Malden, Mass., headquarters.
“I can’t say enough about what a great bunch of people they are. DCNE is a class organization, with some of the best people in this industry working there,” said John Witz. “It’s been a great relationship and I was honored to represent RCD in receiving this award.”
Jim Witz added, “John and I were there to get the award, but it honors all the people of RCD and all the people who help us do what we do to serve DCNE.”
Photos to accompany this article can downloaded by clicking the photo images above. The second photo caption is:
Left to right: Jim Witz, Totaline Zone 1A and international sales manager; Charlie Bassett, product manager for OEM parts and 37-year DCNE employee; John Witz, Totaline zone sales manager
About Totaline
Totaline is a global network of more than 800 stores offering thousands of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) parts — as well as aftermarket products for Totaline and all major HVAC/R equipment brands. Totaline is part of Carrier Corp., which is headquartered in Farmington, Conn., and is the world’s largest provider of heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. With 2007 revenues of $14.6 billion, Carrier has approximately 43,000 employees worldwide and operations in more than 170 countries. Carrier is part of United Technologies Corp.(NYSE: UTX), a Hartford, Connecticut-based provider of products and services to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide.
For more information about Carrier products and services, visit www.carrier.com. For more information about Totaline parts, aftermarket products and store locations, visit www.totaline.com.
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Posted July 1, 2008
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