CGC & SPI Name President

Commercial Grounds Care and Schiller-Pfeiffer announced Pat Cappucci as new President of the affiliated companies, which include BOB-CAT, Bunton, Ryan and Steiner brand power equipment (CGC) and Classen, Little Wonder and Mantis brand power equipment (SPI).

Cappucci brings a diversified background and experience to the affiliated companies with service in a variety of functional areas ranging from ground level to senior management including; Research & Development, Manufacturing, Customer Service, Sales & Marketing, and General Management. Cappucci brings over 10 years of OPE experience to CGC & SPI and more then 25 years of driving growth for leading companies like Becton Dickinson, 3M, Toro, and most recently Select Comfort.

An Engineer by training, Cappucci holds a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Marquette University and an MBA with honors from The Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. Cappucci’s goals are to help build upon the equity developed to date in the SPI and CGC businesses, and drive new innovation and growth in the enterprise.

“We’ve got a great team in place with well recognized brands and products that have remained the industry leaders in their markets for decades. This strong foundation is what we will build our future upon.” he says.

CGC & SPI Honor Commercial Distributors

Commercial Grounds Care, Inc.; manufacturer of BOB-CAT, Bunton, Ryan and Steiner brand power equipment and Schiller-Pfeiffer, Inc.; manufacturer of Classen, Little Wonder and Mantis brand power equipment, honored their commercial distribution sales partners at their recent CGC & SPI Distributor Meeting held in Johnson Creek, WI. Distributors, their Sales Representatives and Managers were honored on several levels; Distributor of the Year, Territory Manager of the Year, Sales Manager of the Year, and Rookie of the Year (CGC only). 

CGC Award winners include: 

• Distributor of the Year: Hayward Distributing.
• Territory Manager of the Year honors went to; Bobby Garner of Carswell
• Distributing, Pat Davenport of Steven Willand, Inc.,
  and Jeff Keuhn of Hayward Distributing.
• Sales Manager of the Year: Mike Fairfax of Carswell Distributing.
• Rookie of the Year: Scott Ferrone of Steven Willand, Inc.

SPI Award winners include:

• SPI Distributor of the Year (U.S.): Fierle Distribution Corp.
• SPI Distributor of the Year (Canada): Echo Canada
• Territory Manager of the Year honors went to; Buddy Merz of KPM
• Exceptional, Jeff Woods of Echo Canada, and Jeff Peek of Power Tool Company.
• Sales Manager of Year: Rick Favata of KPM Exceptional

For more information about CGC and SPI, and their family of products, please contact Greg Heyer, Director of Sales, toll-free at 877/596-6337 or visit their websites at www.cgcequip.com and www.littlewonder.com.