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January 20, 2015
Technomic Takes 2015 Operator Sales Forecast Higher
The improving jobs market and falling gasoline prices are among the factors underlying an upward revision of Technomic Inc.’s 2015 forecast of foodservice operator sales, released to the firm’s customers last week. Technomic now forecasts total foodservice industry sales will grow 3.9% in current dollars with real growth pegged at 1.5%. This compares with the…
January 20, 2015
Potbelly To Land In London
Potbelly Sandwich Works has signed up franchisees to open 10 shops in London over the next five years. Those would be the Chicago sandwich chain’s first outlets in Europe. Potbelly, which has 347 stores, expanded into the Middle East in 2012, where it operates a dozen franchise stores in Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab…
January 20, 2015
Dunkin’ Donuts Inks Deal For 1,400 Stores In China
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January 20, 2015
New York State Mandates Carbon Monoxide Detectors For Restaurants
Starting in June, New York State will require all restaurants and commercial buildings to install carbon monoxide detectors. The law was prompted in part by the February 2014 death of a Legal Sea Foods restaurant manager on Long Island from a carbon monoxide leak from a malfunctioning water heater pipe. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the…
January 20, 2015
New Faces At Meiko To Oversee Sales Development, Marketing And Training
Meiko USA has promoted Danielle Mason to oversee strategic sales and business development. Mason, formerly Meiko’s sales and customer service operations manager, will work closely with the Nashville-based manufacturer’s regional sales managers, sales rep network and buying groups. Independent consultant Celeste Raines has joined the company as its new product and sales training specialist to…
January 13, 2015
Lots To Do In The New Year
I hope you all had a fulfilling and restful holidays with friends and family. We did. Jan, the kids and I even got out of the Chicago cold and snow and spent nearly a week in Phoenix—where we saw more cold and snow!—and Tucson, where it warmed up at the J.W. Marriott Starr Pass, site…
January 13, 2015
Henny Penny Now Employee-Owned
The more than 600 employees of Henny Penny are now owners of the company. The Eaton, Ohio, manufacturer became employee-owned through the sale of its stock to a newly formed employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) as of Dec. 30. The transaction ensures Henny Penny and Wood Stone, both previously owned by the Cobb family, will…
January 13, 2015
Fink Heads To Milan As Ali Group Exec, Kelly Succeeds Him At Ice-O-Matic
Kevin Fink has been named executive v.p. of the Ali Group. He will relocate from Denver, where he has been president of Ice-O-Matic, to join Ali’s corporate team in Milan. Beginning March 2, Fink will report to Massimo Giussani, COO, Ali Group, and assist in the group’s overall support, control and development initiatives of its…
January 13, 2015
Personnel Moves
Neal Hix has joined Bauer Marketing Group as a territory manager. Hix brings the Cincinnati rep firm more than 18 years of sales experience, 11 of them specific to the foodservice equipment industry. From his base in Louisville, he’ll be responsible for all dealers, consultants and end-users in Indiana and Kentucky; he will specifically work…
January 13, 2015
In Memoriam: TriMark Gill’s Michael Halstead
Michael Halstead, regional v.p. of TriMark Gill Group, died Dec. 14 in St. Paul, Minn. He was 59. Halstead, who enjoyed a 35-year career in the foodservice equipment industry, oversaw the Western region branch of TriMark Gill Group in Hamilton, Mont. Halstead, an active tennis player, soccer and basketball coach, is survived by his wife…
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