Counselor Top 40 supplier The Magnet Group (TMG, asi/68507) celebrated top achievers at its 2025 national sales meeting this month, including its highest honor, the Fran Ford Award.

This year’s honoree was June Edwards, TMG’s director of sales operations. The company had never had so many nominations for the award as a whole, and for one person, said Bill Korowitz, CEO and a member of Counselor’s Power 50 list of the most influential people in promo.

The Magnet Group’s 2025 Fran Ford honoree June Edwards, with CEO Bill Korowitz and CRO Dan Jellinek.

The annual honor recognizes values like mentorship, volunteerism, generosity and kindness demonstrated by the award’s namesake, Fran Ford, an industry legend and former Counselor Lifetime Achievement Award honoree who passed away in 2018.

“Every single day June’s job is done with a smile and an attention to detail that makes all of us better at TMG,” Korowitz said. “I can’t think of another person in our group who has made such an impact in how we look to the industry, how we interact with industry people and each other, and yes, how we make more money.”

Also recognized at the national sales meeting were TMG’s top producer, Jessica Hiner; top revenue growth from Lori Bolton and Stacey Ballie; top inside sales manager, Donna Meyer; and top regional managers Jimmy Christ, and the team of Bill Nault and Leah Newman.

“In 2025, the world threw everything at us but the kitchen sink and we had growth – for that, and all of you, I am very proud,” said Chief Revenue Officer Dan Jellinek.

Based on North American promotional products revenue of $104.3 million, The Magnet Group ranked 19th on Counselor’s most recent list of the largest suppliers in the industry.