[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 139 (Friday, November 14, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1589]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    RECOGNIZING MRS. MARCIA A. DAVID

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                        HON. KERRY L. BENTIVOLIO

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, November 14, 2014

  Mr. BENTIVOLIO. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize an outstanding 
individual, Mrs. Marcia A. David of Novi, Michigan, for her more than 
37 years of service with Hormel Foods. She is the first woman in the 
company's 123-year history to retire from the sales division. She has 
probably sold more SPAM luncheon meat than any other woman in America 
during the course of her career.
   Marcia started with the company immediately following graduation 
from The Ohio State University in 1977 and during her 37 and a half 
years there she has progressed into positions of increased 
responsibility to her current post as Customer Business Manager.
   Marcia started as a trainee in Chicago, and her first sales 
assignment was in Flint, Michigan. After seven years in the field she 
transferred to the corporate office in Austin, Minnesota, as an 
associate product manager. One year later she advanced to product 
manager--the first woman in company history to hold this position.
   After three years in Austin, she returned to field sales in the 
Michigan district managing the Kroger account. In May 1995 she took 
over Kmart, advancing to customer team leader while also taking on the 
additional responsibility of the Target account in 1997. In 2003 Marcia 
was named the Detroit Grocery Products district manager. Finally, in 
2004 she was promoted to the position she holds today, Customer 
Business Manager of the East Central District where she is responsible 
for leading a team covering accounts in three states.
   Marcia has led several top-to-top meetings with one of the company's 
largest accounts, Meijer, and achieved a goal of being chosen by them 
as a joint business planning partner, an honor bestowed on only a 
handful of Meijer's most important collaborators.
   Marcia is a two-time Chairman's Inner Circle award winner. She has 
been instrumental in increasing Hormel Food's support of and advocacy 
for the Network of Executive Women. Marcia has been a consistent and 
energetic mentor for many of the young men and women who have joined 
Hormel Foods as interns, sales trainees, and account managers.
   Her retirement is a milestone within the company, as she will be the 
first woman to ever retire from the Consumer Products Sales team since 
the company was founded back in 1891.
   I join with her colleagues, friends and family in congratulating 
Marcia David as she completes her remarkable career with Hormel Foods, 
and wish her well as she shifts gears to an active and rewarding life 
after retirement with her husband, Rob.

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