With  additions to the company’s family of distributor partners, Maruyama U.S., Inc. is organizing training programs designed to successfully introduce the company’s people, products, and programs.

Recently, Chris Martin (Regional Sales Manager) and Jay Larsen (Technical Sales Support Manager) conducted a two-day training meeting for employees at Smiths South-Central Sales Co. in Springhill, La. In attendance for SSC was each of the six territory sales managers (representing Maruyama in the states Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas), the technical services manager, and principals Billy and Robert Smith.

Although ultimately successful, the SSC meeting began inauspiciously when, in the early morning hours of the first meeting day, thunderstorms and heavy rains inundated Springhill with almost eight inches of rain in less than two hours. The SSC office and warehouse flooded, but everyone worked together to ensure no equipment was damaged.