Hoshizaki Adds Rep Group in Southeast

Hoshizaki America continues to expand its reach in the southeast.

Effective February 1, Hoshizaki has partnered with Master Marketing Manufacturers Reps for sales of all ice machines, dispensers and refrigeration products in its southeast region covering North Carolina and South Carolina and the MAFSI Region 12 portion of Tennessee.

While this sales partnership is new, Master Marketing Foodservice as a distributor has consistently represented Hoshizaki in the southeast since 1987 and was one of the original Hoshizaki distributors in the U.S.

Master Marketing was originally incorporated in 1976 as a manufacturers’ rep company under the name KBR Inc. In 1984, the company opened a wholesale distribution company and in 1991, the company was reorganized, and the name was changed to Master Marketing. Master Marketing & Sunlow combined forces in 2001 as a southeast manufacturers’ rep and wholesale distribution company.

On a related note, in January, Hoshizaki announced it had acquired the business of southeastern U.S. distributor Cannon Marketing.