Exmark Recognizes Largest Dealer in California

Exmark Manufacturing Co. (Beatrice, Neb.) recognized Horizon Distributors for outstanding sales achievement in 2006-2007. Horizon received Exmark’s No. 1 Sales Achievement Award for the Western Region, and earned six of Exmark’s Top 10 Awards for the Western United States.

Horizon’s Phoenix store received top honors as the number one Exmark sales dealer for the West Region. Horizon’s San Jose store, which began selling Exmark power equipment only seven years ago, achieved the number one sales position for all of California. Horizon in Bellevue Washington ranked number one in it’s territory as well. Also recognized on Exmark’s Top Ten were Horizon stores in Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and Littleton. All six store locations have an on-site service center with professionally-trained technicians that are certified on Exmark product, as well as several other equipment lines.

“We thank Exmark for recognizing the hard work of our people”, says Jim Ross, president of Horizon. “Our stores and sales teams commit a lot of time to technical training so that they can knowledgeably and professionally assist our customers.”

Horizon power equipment product sales is directed by Toley McGettigan , Product Category Manager. McGettigan’s team includes Marlin Posvar, Shawnacy Leonard and Kevin Floyd who work directly with Horizon sales and operations on store merchandising, sales, customer relations and service center operation.

“Our power equipment team is top-notch and always makes sure we have the right product and service offering for our customers,” Ross says.

Horizon’s other product lines include irrigation, water management, golf irrigation and agronomics, landscape products (fertilizer, chemicals, seed, sod and tools), and specialty products, which includes landscape lighting, pond supplies, misting and outdoor cooking equipment.

Horizon is a “professional supplier” that sells a variety of products and services to the green industry professional through over 60 Horizon stores in the Western US. Texas and Georgia. It offers customers the industry’s widest choice of irrigation, landscape, specialty and professional lawn care products, including top quality brand names like Rain Bird, Hunter, Irritrol, Toro, Exmark, Echo, Shindaiwa, and Monsanto.

Headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., Horizon is part of the Pool Corp. family of companies. POOL through its SCP and Superior Pool Products network is the largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies and related products. Currently, POOL operates 272 sales centers in North America and Europe, through which it distributes more than 100,000 national brand and private label products to over 70,000 wholesale customers. For more information about POOL, visit www.poolcorp.com.