MENLO, GA- Best Manufacturing (www.bestglove.com), one of the world's leading providers of hand protection for industrial and medical markets, named Cynthia Heim Smith as its new territory manager for Minnesota, North Dakota and parts of South Dakota and Iowa.
"Cynthia is a valuable addition to our sales team," says George Mack, general manager of Best Manufacturing. "We're very excited to add her drive and people skills to our team and look forward to taking our leadership position in general purpose industrial gloves to the next level."
Prior to joining Best, Smith worked in sales for Personnel Decisions International, a worldwide human resources consulting firm, developing customer-training programs. Smith is a graduate of the College of St. Catherine where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional Sales.
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