Boston, MA, December 2019: HUB Promotional Group (HPG) is pleased to announce Alissa Baker has joined the company as Director of Key accounts for Hub Pen, Beacon and Origaudio. She will work alongside long time Beacon and Hub rep Sharon Schiffelhuber handling key accounts and customer relationships. She will also support South East territories alongside of Mike Fleming with Hub and
Mike Szymczak with Origaudio.
Baker comes from a 17-year sales career in Branded Merchandise and Direct Marketing: In 2004, she founded Magnets 4 media (M4m), a Division of The Magnet Group (TMG), which she ran until 2017 as Senior Vice President of Sales. M4m’s mission was to build a unique sales and customer service team to sell TMGs promotional portfolio to distributors.
In 2017, Alissa transitioned from the supplier side to work for Taylor Communications, as Director of Promotional Marketing. While with Taylor, Alissa aligned with the sales teams to lead the pursuit of new business, revenue retention and growth across existing accounts by communicating TC’s promotional marketing value proposition to high level decision makers.
“Alissa has a true zest for promotional products and will be a strong contributor to the growth of HPG,” states HUB Promotional Group Senior Vice President of Sales Trina Bicknell. “It is wonderful to have Alissa join the HPG family, she brings with her a wealth of industry experience and a great passion to work with our awesome customers.”
About Hub: Hub is a second generation, family-owned business headquartered in Braintree, Massachusetts. Its 300+ employees service more than 12,000 promotional products distributors and the company decorates more than 215 million pens each year – making it the second largest designer and supplier of promotional writing instruments in the United States.
About Beacon: Beacon is an award-winning promotional products supplier with a great reputation for service and customer satisfaction. Beacon offers a wide selection of products, such as: calendars, table covers, housewares, tools, technology solutions, automotive accessories, highlighters and name badges. Beacon also provides premium leather products in its Canyon Outback Leather line and countless name brand products for executive gifts and incentives.
About Origaudio: Origaudio is an industry leader in innovative design for its line of awesome lifestyle products. Founded in 2009 and based in Fountain Valley and Pleasanton, California, Origaudio serves its client base with a fresh and cutting edge approach to product that focuses on functionality and creativity for end users. With each of its more than 50 employees committed to providing exceptional service, Origaudio delivers a true “white glove” customer experience to complement a product line that builds lasting impressions for its customers.
About HUB Promotional Group:
Now comprised of Hub Pen, Beacon, Best/Cooler, Debco, BCG, Origaudio and HandStands, all HPG companies share a common foundation, anchored by best-in-class service, innovative products, quick turnaround times and longstanding win-win partnerships with their respective customer bases and suppliers. Serving a growing North American customer base with award-winning service, compelling products and a passion for excellence in all phases of the customer experience, HPG is now the 8th largest company in the promotional products industry (based on revenues), and enjoys strong organic growth complemented by strategic acquisitions.
Media Contact:
Pam Baker, Sales & Marketing Project Manager and Marketing Copywriter pambaker@hubpen.com
