Machinery Sales Co. wins Kitamura award for outstanding achievement in sales

(From left) The MASCO sales team includes Jared Hutchinson, Andrew Graham, David Cogswell, Chris Mangano, and Jared Storb.

Machinery Sales Co. (MASCO), City of Industry, Calif., a distributor of metal cutting machine tools, has been selected as the winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award from machining center manufacturer Kitamura Machinery.

“2020 presented formidable challenges to [the machine tool] industry,” said Dave Lucius, vice president of sales at Kitamura Machinery of USA. “The COVID-19 pandemic limited most face-to-face contact with our customers. Travel restrictions, combined with 737 MAX issues at Boeing, devastated [the] commercial aerospace industry. Foreign oil price wars hurt [the] energy segment, and the automotive market remained in a slump. With that said, the MASCO team exceeded goals in unit sales, sales revenue, and market share.”