Energy Marketing Managers Meet

A System-wide Energy Marketing Managers conference was held November 12-13 at the Doubletree Hotel in Bloomington, Ill. Nearly 60 GROWMARK System employees enjoyed presentations on a variety of topics, ranging from lubricant and refined/renewable fuels marketing to the propane policy manual to electronic payment systems. They also received a preview of the new FS brand media campaign.

Keynote presenter was W. Scott Downey, assistant professor, Agricultural Economics and Consumer Sciences and Retailing at Purdue University. He is also associate director for the Center for Food and Agricultural Business and is a frequent speaker and consultant for agribusiness sales teams on professional development topics. Downey led a group session on “Leading High Performance Salespeople.”

“We appreciated the member cooperative energy sales managers taking time to attend this meeting,” said Larry Cristy, GROWMARK Southern Region energy marketing director. “We all enjoyed Scott Downey’s presentation on energy sales leadership and the various presentations from key energy division personnel.”