The big story in 2007 will be the increasingly heated conflict between content creator, distributor, network manager and hardware manufacturer.
Kent East has been promoted to national distributor sales manager for ELCO Corp., a electronics maker with national sales headquarters in Newport Beach.
"It was a miracle of God that we survived this," said one of the liquor distributor's managers.
No one ever admits to paying for placement, which is typically done by distributor sales managers, not representatives of the breweries themselves.
Record store owners, buyers, employees, ad agencies, designers, club owners, label reps, A&R, producers, recording studios, publicists, lawyers, journalists, program directors, distributors, tour managers, booking agents, band managers, and all the ancillary services they required: banking, shipping, printing, photography, travel agencies, limos, spandex wardrobe, cocaine dealers, prostitutes.
I felt very involved with the inner workings of the small business and was able to engage with employees along the supply chain including farmers, factory workers, distributors, and managers.
I don't want to sound like too much of a bomb-thrower here – it's not that I believe corporations are inherently corrupt, I just want middlemen, distributors and managers to truly add value.
"We purchase our lumber through a distributor," David Hamm, production manager at the furniture maker Kittenger, said by phone from Buffalo.
At the event, which runs from Feb. 5 through 15, Frances McDormand, left, who won an Academy Award for her performance as a pregnant police officer in "Fargo," will head a jury that also includes the New York distributor and theater manager Dan Talbot, Agence France-Presse reported.
John Parker joined Amway in 1993, as a distributor relations sales manager, and he quickly advanced through the organization.
