Tomlinson Industries has promoted Michael Ritley to V.P.-Manufacturing. Ritley, who previously served as Tomlinson’s director of materials management, will continue those responsibilities as he takes on oversight of manufacturing operations at all of Tomlinson’s facilities in Cleveland. “Mike brings over four decades of experience with our company, and we look forward to optimizing Tomlinson’s manufacturing…
Three appointments have been announced in Emerson’s Commercial Solutions Group. Drew Carmichael has been named Director-Product Planning & Innovation; he joins the Racine, Wis., company from Johnson Controls, where he was Director-Enterprise Innovation. At Emerson, he will manage all commercial product and research efforts, and be responsible for new product introductions/market entry strategies based on…
Just weeks ahead of next month’s opening of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Wendy’s is making its debut in the Brazilian market. The chain will open two stores in Sao Paulo through a partnership between Brazil’s Infinity Services and the Starboard Group, one of Wendy’s largest U.S. franchisees and a subsidiary of the Dublin,…
Comments to the EPA were due by July 5 on the agency’s new guidelines on of its product development page for Energy Star Commercial refrigerators and freezers contains further details. Specification information is available csouhrada@nafem.org.
Chicago has joined more than two dozen other U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, in requiring employers to provide paid sick leave. The ordinance, which guarantees nearly every worker in the city up to five days of paid sick days each year, will take effect in July 2017. The new paid sick leave rules will increase…
TriMark USA, which acquired Maryland-based Adams-Burch less than a month ago, has made a second major acquisition, this time on the West Coast, purchasing San Diego-based R.W. Smith & Co. Smith, which got its start selling bar supplies in 1935, ranks 16th on FER’s Top Dealers with verified sales of $101.8 million in 2015. “Our…
HOSHIZAKI KM-340M_H This slim-line modular cuber, turning out 325 lb./24 hr., produces individual crescent ice cubes using a dual-sided stainless evaporator that’s mostly flat except for small dimples. Water flows over the dimples and forms a crescent shape and when the machine harvests, each crescent cube pops off individually. The CycleSaver design produces the same…