Activity at Top Speed at Progressive Group Alliance Business Summit



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Steve Push, right, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Progressive Group Alliance, welcomes octogenarian foodservice distributor executive Joe Waugh, ceo, Waugh Foods, Peoria, IL, and his wife Freddie.

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Stacie Jorgensen, director of marketing at Harker's, Le Mars, Iowa, brightens this picture with Troy Weeks, left, and Bradley M. Watkinson, right, of Progressive Group Alliance.

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Mike Essaf, left, of Cedar Farms, Philadelphia, works out final details of an arrangement with Bob Darnell of Portion Pac, a division of Heinz Co.

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From left, Frank Haynes, executive vice president of sales, Mike Hudson Distributing, Petaluma, CA, and wife Patty listen to Kay Taylor, director of training, explain Progressive Group Alliance's training strategy.

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The Derstines, Earl and Zach, of Derstine's, Inc., discuss some numbers with Bill Sacks, center, of Norpac Food Sales, Ormond Beach, FL.

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Mac Sullivan of Pate Dawson Co., right, listens to a presentation by Tom Rawson of Trackmax.

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