Marlot Pace Honored as Ben E. Keith



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Top DSR: Senior Vice president Keith Pittman, President Mike Roach, Johnny Beauchamp Award Winner Marlot Pace, Executive Vice Presid3ent Jim Lavender, and Senior Vice President Ron Boyd.
Pace was selected from a field of approximately 460 DSRs. She has been with Ben E. Keith Foods for 10 years, and covers central Arkansas. She is a 2008 Diamond Award Winner, and has previously won two Silver Medallions, one Gold Medallion, and three Platinum Medallions.

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