Tag: North Carolina

Cellular Sales opens five new stores

Posted by Sarah Malak – June 29, 2011

Interior of a Cellular Sales store

Knoxville, Tenn. – Cellular Sales, a premium Verizon retailer, has opened five new stores nationwide in the past few weeks. The new stores opened in Baton Rouge, La., Southport, N.C., Graham, Texas, North Palm Beach, Fla. and Charlotte, N.C.

Currently, Cellular Sales has more than 400 stores across the United States. Sales consultants for the company earn an average of more than $51,000 per year.

Cellular Sales is an 18-year-old privately held company founded and headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn.  For the past three years, Inc. Magazine has named Cellular Sales one of the nation’s fastest growing retail companies in the country.

For more information about the new Cellular Sales stores, visit www.CellularSales.com. For more information on joining the company, visit www.JoinCellularSales.com.

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Media Contact:
Sarah Malak
(865) 584-0550
smalak@ackermannpr.com

Cellular Sales opens five new stores in five states

Posted by Sarah Malak – May 13, 2011

Knoxville, Tenn. – Cellular Sales, the nation’s largest Verizon premium wireless retailer, has opened five new stores nationwide in the past two weeks. The new stores opened in Havre de Grace, Md., Grovetown, Ga., Hope Mills, N.C., Lapalco, La. and White Settlement, Texas, and a store in Clinton, Tenn. has relocated.

Currently, Cellular Sales has nearly 400 stores across the United States. Sales consultants for the company earn an average of more than $51,000 per year.

Cellular Sales is an 18-year-old privately held company founded and headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn.  For the past three years, Inc. Magazine has named Cellular Sales one of the nation’s fastest growing retail companies in the country.

For more information about the new Cellular Sales stores, visit www.CellularSales.com. For more information on joining the company, visit www.JoinCellularSales.com.

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Media Contact:
Sarah Malak, Ackermann PR
(865) 584-0550
smalak@ackermannpr.com

The Smoky Mountain Region is quickly becoming a spring break hot spot

Posted by Rick Laney – March 17, 2011

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — There are two reasons the Smoky Mountains Region is becoming a favorite spring break destination for visitors from all over the country:

  • In the past three years, new attractions and resorts — like Wilderness at the Smokies and Titanic Museum Attraction — have opened and now offer visitors amazing things to do year-round regardless of the weather.
  • The Smoky Mountain Region covers two states and countless small communities around the national park.  Now that we are marketing the “Region” as a destination (as opposed to marketing each of the small communities and towns as individual entities) people get to see all of the offerings rather than just what each small town has to offer.

The Smoky Mountain Region is also a wildly successful destination because it is within a one-day drive for most of the U.S. population east of the Mississippi River.  And, as the McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville continues to get new low fare carriers serving new markets, more and more travelers are flying to East Tennessee for their vacations.

Watch and read the CBS News report about the Smoky Mountain Region and its appeal to spring breakers by clicking the photo below.

WVLT (CBS) television shows why the Smoky Mountain Region is a new spring break "hot spot"

Media Contact
Rick Laney
(865) 584-0550
rlaney@ackermannpr.com

Ackermann PR’s Rick Laney draws national attention to Smokies as a hot spring break destination

Posted by Shane Rhyne – March 7, 2011

The Great Smoky Mountains Region

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Because of its expertise in travel and tourism in the Great Smoky Mountain Region, Ackermann PR continues to be the primary source for major national media outlets wanting more information about the nation’s most visited national park and the communities that surround it in Tennessee and North Carolina.

Last week, Ackermann PR Vice President Rick Laney turned up across the country talking about why the Great Smoky Mountain Region is quickly becoming a major spring break destination.  His comments about the appeal of the Smoky Mountain Region appeared in major media outlets including ABC News, CBS News, Chicago Tribune, Washington Examiner, Huffington Post, Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal Constitution and MSNBC.

“Our approach is completely different,” Laney said.  “While small, individual communities around the Smokies have touted what they have to offer for decades, no one has successfully marketed the region as a whole.  The funny thing is that tourists who come here don’t even recognize the little individual towns – they only recognize the Great Smoky Mountains.

“When you travel to somewhere like the Smokies for a vacation, you make it a point to see all there is to see, and the Smokies cover countless little communities in two separate states.  Our visitors hike in the Smokies, visit attractions in Gatlinburg, Hendersonville, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Asheville, Cherokee and Bryson City.  They go back and forth between North Carolina and Tennessee to take in the entire region.

“It only makes sense that the premier attractions and resorts are now marketing that way.”

For more information about Ackermann PR and its unique approach to travel and tourism marketing, call (865) 584-0550.

Media Contact
Shane Rhyne
(865) 584-0550
srhyne@ackermannpr.com

Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless opens five new stores in three states

Posted by Rick Laney – January 8, 2010

Knoxville, Tenn. –  Cellular Sales, the nation’s largest retailer of Verizon Wireless, is expanding again in Texas, North Carolina and Virginia.  Five new Cellular Sales stores have opened during the past month.

Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless is a 15-year old privately held company headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn.  The company currently operates throughout the United States.  For the past two years, Inc. Magazine has named Cellular Sales one of the nation’s fastest growing privately held companies. This year, the company was in the Top 100 for retailers.

“Cellular Sales’ ranking on this year’s Inc. 5,000 list is a testimony to customer service,” said Dane Scism, founder and CEO of Cellular Sales.  “Our business model is based on treating every customer as if they were our only customer.  People notice it when you take care of them.

“How many people are there that know exactly who to call – by name – when they have a question about their cell phone or their service plan?  Our customers have a name and contact number for their own personal wireless consultant, a real person they can talk to right there in their own community.  We’re proud of the way we take care of customers, and we know it is the reason we are growing.”

For the past 15 years, Cellular Sales has consistently outperformed the rest of its industry, and is now the nation’s largest retailer of Verizon Wireless.  By year end, Knoxville, Tenn.-based Cellular Sales will open 50 new stores, bringing the company’s total number of locations to over 300.

“When the economy is booming, growth is expected,” Scism said.  “But companies that are growing in spite of the economy – like Cellular Sales – have to be doing something different.”

For more information about the new Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless stores, visit the company’s web site at www.cellularsales.com or call (865) 588-3855.

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Media Contact
Rick Laney
(865) 584-0550
rlaney@ackermannpr.com

Folkmoot USA welcomes Evergreen Packaging as presenting sponsor for 2010-2013 festivals

Posted by Shane Rhyne – December 21, 2009

Waynesville, NC (December 21, 2009) – Folkmoot USA, North Carolina’s Official International Festival, has its first presenting sponsor. Evergreen Packaging has partnered with the Festival as its presenting sponsor for 2010 through 2013.  Evergreen Packaging, with facilities in Canton and Waynesville, employs more than a thousand people in Haywood County, home to Folkmoot USA.  Evergreen produces paper and packaging products in operations worldwide.

“The fact that we are an international company made sponsoring this festival a particularly goodFolkmoot brings international folk performances to the mountains of western North Carolina fit,” says Jody Hanks, Vice President and General Counsel. “We’re looking forward to helping bring people from all over the world to experience being in Western North Carolina and make friends with the wonderful people who live here.”

“This means a lot to the festival,” says Folkmoot USA Executive Director Karen Babcock. “In tough economic times it’s good to have someone step up and make a multi-year commitment.”

In fact, as Presenting Sponsor, Evergreen Packaging becomes the first international corporation to develop a multi-year relationship with the nonprofit Folkmoot USA and its mission to promote international diversity through world music and dance. Based in Haywood County’s town of Waynesville, Folkmoot USA operates a 2-week folklore festival hosting approximately 350 musicians and traditional dancers from all over the world.

The 2010 Folkmoot Festival will take place July 22 – August 1 throughout ten counties in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. Folkmoot has been presented annually longer than any other traditional international folk festival in the US and is considered one of the best festivals of its kind in all of North America.” About 55 performances, including several free performances for public school children, the Parade of Nations, 5K Run and International Festival Day will take place during the eleven-day festival. Out of more than three hundred annual submissions, only a dozen or so countries are invited to participate each year in a highly competitive juried process.

Held for 26 consecutive years, Folkmoot is North Carolina’s Official International Festival (Senate bill 840) and has been designated “One of the Top Twenty Events in the Southeast” by the Southeast Tourism Society for 19 years. According to an Economic and Fiscal Impact Study performed by professional staff at Western Carolina University, Folkmoot USA attracts more than 100,000 visitors to Western North Carolina and pumps more than $4 million into the local economy, and is responsible for creating 56 jobs.

Grand Opening and Candlelight Closing Tickets are now on sale!—for the best seats, call 828-452-2997 or email info@folkmoot.com. For more information, go to www.FolkmootUSA.org or call 877-FolkUSA.

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Digital Images Available Upon Request

About Evergreen Packaging
Evergreen Packaging, is a world leader in fiber-based liquid packing solutions, publication and converting papers.  The Blue Ridge facilities have operated in Western North Carolina for 100 years. For more information about Evergreen Packaging visit www.evergreenpackaging.com.

For more information:

Folkmoot
Karen Babcock
828-452-2997
info@folkmoot.com

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Evergreen Packaging
Mike Cohen
865-584-0550
mcohen@ackermannpr.com

Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless opens eight new stores in seven states over past month

Posted by Rick Laney – December 8, 2009

Cellular Sales Logo

Knoxville, Tenn. –  Cellular Sales, the nation’s largest retailer of Verizon Wireless, is expanding in Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia.  The eight new Cellular Sales stores opened during the past month.

Cellular Sales is a 15-year old privately held company headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn.  The company currently operates throughout the United States.  For the past two years, Inc. Magazine has named Cellular Sales one of the nation’s fastest growing privately held companies. This year, the company was in the Top 100 for retailers.

“Cellular Sales’ ranking on this year’s Inc. 5,000 list is a testimony to customer service,” said Dane Scism, founder and CEO of Cellular Sales.  “Our business model is based on treating every customer as if they were our only customer.  People notice it when you take care of them.

“How many people are there that know exactly who to call – by name – when they have a question about their cell phone or their service plan?  Our customers have a name and contact number for their own personal wireless consultant, a real person they can talk to right there in their own community.  We’re proud of the way we take care of customers, and we know it is the reason we are growing.”

For the past 15 years, Cellular Sales has consistently outperformed the rest of its industry, and is now the nation’s largest retailer of Verizon Wireless.  By year end, Knoxville, Tenn.-based Cellular Sales will open 50 new stores, bringing the company’s total number of locations to over 300.

“When the economy is booming, growth is expected,” Scism said.  “But companies that are growing in spite of the economy – like Cellular Sales – have to be doing something different.”

For more information about the new Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless stores, visit the company’s web site at www.cellularsales.com or call (865) 588-3855.

Media Contact
Rick Laney
(865) 584-0550
rlaney@ackermannpr.com