Beer Distribution News
CITY Beverage - Arlington Heights Welcomes Lee Smith to Management Team
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – CITY BEVERAGE – ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, a division of Detroit-based SOAVE ENTERPRISES, welcomes Lee Smith to its management team as Team Leader of energy and specialty beverages. The announcement was made today by Cecil Troutwine, president of CITY BEVERAGE ILLINOIS.
In this position, Smith will manage a sales team, set individual and team goals, review personal performance and develop and implement strategies to increase the presence of each brand in a competitive market place.
Smith joins CITY Beverage – Arlington Heights with more than 25 years of beverage distribution and retail experience that includes positions held as sales manager for Southwest Beer Distribution and brand manager for Pabst, Barton, Heineken, Gambrinus, Natural Beverage and Snapple Beverage brands for SWB.
A graduate of Alcorn State University, he currently serves on the Advisory Council on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependency and has won many awards for his sales performance. He currently resides in Frankfort, Ill.
CITY Beverage – Arlington Heights is a division of Soave Enterprises, L.L.C., www.soave.com. Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony L. Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others. Recently, Forbes Magazine ranked Soave Enterprises as the 192nd largest privately held company in the United States.
