Versele Global Marketing, the Harelbeke, Belgium, sales agent for American manufacturers in Europe, has changed management while maintaining continuity. After 20 years, company founder Jean-Francois Versele has ceded control of Versele Global Marketing and 10-year-old Versele Logistic Services to Mieke Vanacker and Jurgen Dobbelaere. Vanacker led her family business before joining VGM/VLS nine years ago.…
The casual dining Italian-style group Prezzo has accepted a takeover offer from the Texas-based private equity firm, TPG. The deal is worth £304 million ($483 million). Founded in 2000 in Oxford, Prezzo currently has nearly 250 restaurants across the U.K., including more than 200 under the core Prezzo brand and 37 under its Mexican-themed Chimichanga…
Burger King, which returned to France in 2012 after 15 years, opened its third location in Paris last week, and it’s a big one—boasting two kitchens in its 13,000-sq.-ft. footprint. The chain’s new flagship store in France has more than 250 seats and offers customers six digital ordering kiosks. The average size of a BK…
The future appears to be now in the refrigeration industry. With looming changes in refrigerants, manufacturing and environmental regulations, Emerson Climate Technologies is holding its first quarterly forum in support of its E360 initiative. The Nov. 13 event will focus on creating a meaningful refrigeration industry dialogue and help customers address the many challenges facing…
Rational USA has implemented a new business structure, effective Oct. 1. The move realigns the company’s American organization into three separate units: regional sales managers (metropolitan regions), partner groups and key accounts. While collectively, the three business units make up Rational USA’s organization, each will function independently and focus on separate core goals. By having…
Attending the International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show next month in New York? Don’t forget to check out the winning design in the IHMRS 2014 Foodservice Pioneering Concept competition. The winning concept, “BOWLS—Food That’s Good For You!,” has been built to a scaled working model on the exhibit floor at the IHMRS, Nov. 9-11 at…
Going to NAFEM ’15? Join FER during the show to honor the winners of our 2015 Industry Excellence Awards. The event, Friday evening, Feb. 20, at the Anaheim Marriott, will celebrate the career accomplishments of 17 companies and industry professionals. Register now to share an exceptional evening honoring the 2015 recipients of the Management Excellence,…
McAlister’s Deli has a five-year plan to open another 10 locations throughout Colorado, North and South Carolina and Wyoming. Three stores—in Charlotte and Fayetteville, N.C., and Florence, S.C.—will open later this year. The franchise group leading the expansion, Southern Deli Holdings, currently operates 47 locations in those states as well as Missouri, where it recently…
Jeff Johnson has joined
Yo! Sushi, the London-based conveyor-belt sushi chain, plans to launch 50 new sites in the U.S. over the next six years. It will open four stores in New Jersey and Florida by the beginning of 2015. The expansion follows a move from rival sushi chain Itsu, which recently announced that it was expanding into the…