Business Briefs: October

Fundraiser a Hole in One for Arnold's Pools Arnold’s Pools is pleased to announce it has raised $20,000 at its annual charity golf tournament. The 2013 tournament was held at Wild Wing Plantation on September 11, 2013, and saw 125 golfers, 128 sponsors, 90 volunteers/workers, 150 special needs children and their teachers in attendance. The money benefitted the Grand Strand Miracle League, a baseball league exclusively for children with disabilities.

Over the last 13 years, Arnold's Pools has raised $172,200. 

Plastimayd’s Stover Celebrates 25-year AnniversaryPlastimayd LLC, a manufacturer of custom swimming pool liners and CoverLogix safety covers, is pleased to celebrate employee Carole Stover's 25th anniversary at the company. Stover began her career at Plastimayd working in customer service and order processing. Her degree in industrial model building and her relentless pursuit of making the customer happy makes her the ideal team member for managing customer orders. Stover can be reached at [email protected].

Evosus Partners With Watkins Evosus, Inc., makers of Evosus Business Management Software, has announced a partnership and software integration with Watkins Manufacturing Corporation, makers of HotSpring, Caldera, Freeflow and Fantasy spas. 

The integration allows Watkins dealers to import item numbers, product descriptions and wholesale pricing for new and existing products directly from Watkins into their Evosus system.  

"The Watkins' integration can improve efficiency, quality control and effectiveness for the hundreds of Hot Spring and Caldera retailers that could leverage the Evosus platform," says Corey Holton, VP of product development at Evosus.

“We established this integration relationship with Evosus to create a platform that allows our dealers to be more efficient,” says Mike Dunn, executive vice president of Watkins Manufacturing Corporation. “Not only will the latest software upgrade improve internal systems for our dealers, but it will also give our dealers more time to spend on marketing and sales programs to increase sales.” 

Neptune-Benson Promotes MonkNeptune-Benson, a manufacturer of commercial aquatics filtration systems, has promoted David Monk to director of international sales. David will be responsible for business development outside of the US working with representatives in Western Europe, Russia, Australia and New Zealand.

Monk has been with Neptune-Benson for the past two years as an international sales manager; three years prior to that, he served as a national sales manager for Lawson Aquatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Neptune-Benson. Monk has an impressive background of proven advancement throughout his career.  

David Monk will be working out of Neptune-Benson’s satellite office in Naples, FL and can be reached at [email protected].