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01/28/2009: Broaster Company
Announces Retirements, Promotions, and New Appointments
Beloit, WI,
January 28, 2009 – The Broaster Company announced today recent retirements,
promotions, and key appointments.
Frank Dowling, President of the Broaster Recipe Foods division; Gene
Halley, Vice President of Operations for the firm; and Norm
Kingston, Quality Control Technician in Broaster’s
manufacturing facility, all recently retired after a combined
108 years of service with the firm!
Frank Dowling
joined Broaster in 1993 as national accounts manager and soon
after was promoted to director of sales. In this role he was
responsible for starting and developing the Broaster Recipe
Foods Division, a complete line of ready-to-cook frozen foods.
In 1996 Dowling was named vice president of the Broaster Recipe
Foods Division and then executive vice president of sales for
the division in 1999. His most recent promotion, to
president of the division, occurred in early 2003.
Gene Halley
recently completed 45 years of service with Broaster. He joined
the company in 1963 as a condiment worker and rose to become
production manager, plant manager, and then vice president of
operations in 1996.
Norm Kingston
recently completed 48 years of service with Broaster. He joined
the company in 1961 as a welder and had been quality control
technician since 1973.
Derek
Fellows, previously a business manager for General Motors
Corporation, has joined The Broaster Company in the position of
Operations Manager; Randy McKinney, a national sales
manager for Broaster since joining the firm in 2003, has been
promoted to Vice President of New Product and Program
Development; and Bill Loeffelholz, export/government and
special accounts sales manager for Broaster since 2006 and a
Broaster team member since 2003, has been promoted to National
Sales Manager. Michael Groeneveld has joined Broaster in
the position of Export/Government and Special Accounts Sales
Manager, after having held similar positions in the foodservice
industry. Groeneveld has spent his entire business career in
export sales and overseas business development.
Established in 1954 and
headquartered in
Beloit
,
Wisconsin
, The
Broaster
Company markets and licenses the Genuine
Broaster
Chicken®,
Broaster® Recipe Express, Broaster® To Go Authentic Pizza, and Bro-Tisserie®
food programs worldwide through a network of authorized
distributors. The company also manufactures pressure fryers,
ventless countertop fryers, and a full line of specialty
foodservice equipment; blends a complete line of marinades and
breadings; and markets an expanding line of individually quick
frozen uncooked foods for foodservice operations under the
Broaster
® Recipe Foods brand name.
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