National Independent Sanitary Companies, or NISSCO has named LagasseSweet its 2013 Supplier of the Year.

"It is never easy to determine the Supplier of the Year for our group," says Mark Bozich, president of NISSCO. "There are a number of variables that we use to measure performance and in 2013 LagasseSweet met or exceeded every criterion we use. LagasseSweet is a big ship and oftentimes in large corporations messaging gets convoluted at the street level with too many initiatives pulling the field in multiple directions."

Bozich continued: "We have seen a real back-to-basics approach, meeting the distributor on the distributor's terms. I believe for that single reason alone we have been able to move the needle in the right direction and will continue on our growth path for a long time to come.”

NISSCO is a jan/san purchasing and marketing group.

Pictured (left to right): Mark Bozich, president of NISSCO;Representing the LagasseSweet team are Dane James, vice president of sales; Jenifer Maxwell, director of Strategic Groups; and Ben Preboy, manager of Strategic Groups.