I’ve spent a great deal of time the past few weeks trying to explain the market for foodservice equipment and supplies to private equity and research companies. Some big deal must be brewing or maybe there are several deals in the works because the focus of their probing is different. Such companies come to us…
Now that the FER Top Dealers Report is finished, the NRA Show has come and gone and we’ve attended the annual Association for Healthcare Foodservice meeting, it’s time for me and my forecasting partner John Muldowney, a marketing executive at The Boelter Cos., to begin work on our annual foodservice equipment and supplies market forecast. …
Two trends are very clear from our annual Top Dealers survey detailed in this issue. First, the biggest dealers, those in the Top 30 or so, continue to grow rapidly, partly by exploiting their chain orientations and partly through acquisition of smaller dealers that fill in regions or niches for them. Many of these dealers…
The heavy-gauge stainless Caster Cradle is the only caster stabilizing device having a patent-pending uniform circular design that allows for approach from any angle, utilizing units secured to the floor where the casters of mobile equipment are to be centered. There is no need to line up wheels at the same time while trying to…