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Grages, Schwendemann win Lester Cup Club awards



Lester Building Systems, Lester Prairie, recognized its
top-performing area sales managers and territory sales managers recently
with the coveted annual Cup Club award. In addition, at least one non-sales
winner is selected each year for this award.

Territory sales manager Lannie Grages and engineering services
technician Larry Schwendemann, both of Glencoe, were two of thosechosen
as 1998 Cup Club winners.

Grages, a seven-time winner, was one of 11 territory managers
vying for the award.

Schwendemann was selected from a pool of 48 associates
who had won individual President’s Awards, an award based on peer nominations
for outstanding performance.

This year’s Cup Club winners received a garnet ring (a
diamond is added for each additional year they win), a framed certificate
and an all-expense paid 4-day trip to San Francisco and Napa Valley, Calif.
in April 1999.

In addition, their names are added to a plaque kept at
the company’s headquarters in Lester Prairie, Minn. Cup Club is the highest
honor bestowed on Lester associates each year.

Headquartered in Lester Prairie, Lester Building Systems
is the leading manufacturer of wood frame buildings marketed through a builder
network, with plants in Clear Brook, Va., Charleston, Ill., and Ottawa,
Kan.

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