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IFDA Program to Tackle Independent Operator Challenges

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 08, 2009
The upcoming IFDA Sales & Marketing Conference (July 26 – 28, Philadelphia) agenda will explore the most universal of those challenges and help attendees better understand how they can help. At the opening session, Bob Goldin, executive vice president of Technomic Inc., will lead a conversation with executives from across the foodservice industry on the current economic climate and other variables affecting the independent operator.

Panelists include IFDA chairman John Martin, ceo of Martin Brothers Distributing Co.;  IFMA Executive Committee member Bill Caskey, vice president of strategic business development at ConAgra Foods/Lamb Weston; and National Restaurant Association vice chairman Michael Gibbons, president of Main Street Ventures.

For full information on the conference, visit www.ifdaonline.org.

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