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Silgan named Vendor of the Year by The Kroger Company's State Avenue plant

Silgan Containers has been named Vendor of the Year from The Kroger Company’s State Avenue plant, Cincinnati, OH.

“We selected Silgan Containers as our Vendor of the Year not because they offered excellent quality, great sales and technical service and overall best value to our business. We selected them because they did all of that and more,” said Terry Shamblin, State Avenue plant manager. Silgan Containers helped Kroger convert its broth steel can/end line from a 3-piece welded type with sanitary ends to a 2-piece, drawn and ironed version featuring a Quick-Top® easy-opening convenience end. Silgan’s performance was rated in several categories including: quality, customer service/tech support, warehousing/receiving and accounting.
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