SMP Honored At O'Reilly's Managers' Conference

SMP Honored At O’Reilly’s Managers’ Conference

This award recognizes suppliers that go above and beyond in their effort to train O'Reilly professional customers and team members to ensure they have an in-depth understanding of the products that the vendor supplies.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Standard Motor Products Inc. (SMP) was recently honored with O’Reilly’s Vendor of the Year award for Technical and Training Support. The award was presented at the O’Reilly Auto Parts Managers’ Conference, held Feb. 1 in St. Louis, Mo. More than 6,500 O’Reilly team members were in attendance.
 
This award recognizes suppliers that go above and beyond in their effort to train O’Reilly professional customers and team members to ensure they have an in-depth understanding of the products that vendor supplies.
 
“SMP consistently excels at training our team members and installers on their product lines,” said David Wilbanks, vice president merchandise, O’Reilly Auto Parts. “In fact, we’ve received comments from our professional customer base remarking how high SMP has set the bar with these training classes – no selling, no gimmicks, just solid training. This really does help set O’Reilly apart from the competition.”
 
 

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