Leading Experts in Supermarket Experts

Gary Allen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Allen and Associates, a retail strategy, marketing, and operations consulting firm. Allen and Associates has completed contracts with banks, LBO groups, wholesalers and retailers in the drug store industry as well as the food industry. Mr. Allen...

Graham Ash was a Buying and Merchandising Director at Adams Kids, a national retail chain, where he worked from October 2005 to May 2008. Previously, he has worked as an interim Consultant developing long term strategies and working solutions for Buying and Merchandising operations in leading UK retailers....

Sandy Campbell-Springfield has more than 35 years of experience in the wholesale and retail grocery marketing field. Prior to her retirement from Safeway as Director of Specialty Marketing, Ms. Campbell-Springfield was charged with Building a centralized specialty foods team at Safeway and with consolidating...

Thomas Cosentino is the Multi Unit Sales Manager for Performance Food Group, a leading broadline food service distributor in the US, where he has worked since 2000. At Performance Food Group, he is responsible for the administration of the contracts department, servicing the multi-unit accounts for...

Tom DeMott is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Encore Associates, a food and beverage consultancy firm. Previously, Mr. DeMott has served as the Vice President of Perishables for Safeway, where he was responsible for procurement and was involved in the acquisitions of Dominick's, Randalls, and...

John Duffy is currently the President of MarketOps, a food and beverage consultancy firm, where he has worked since 2001. Mr. Duffy has more than 15 years of experience in the food and beverage industry and has expertise in wholesale, retail, marketing, sales, product development and business development....

Frank Frystak is the Owner of Frystak Associates, a consulting and business expansionist firm, since 2001. Frystak Associates offers consulting , marketing, sales, outsourcing ,financial, business expansion services to manufacturers, retailers, importers, exporters for international and domestic markets,...

George Gue is the President and Chief Executive Officer at National Supermarket Cooperative Corporation based in New York City. Until January 2005, Mr. Gue was Division President for the Raleigh Division of Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. At Winn-Dixie, he was responsible for the operations of 125 Stores in...

Harvey Gutman is the President of Brookside Advisors LLC, a company focusing on retail and real estate consultancy serving clients including retail chains, wholesalers, private equity firms, non-profit firms, and development companies. Mr. Gutman is knowledgeable on all aspects of commercial real estate...

Marc Israel is a Partner at Macfarlanes in London. He specializes in a wide range of competition and antitrust work. Mr. Israel advises clients active in a wide variety of industry sectors, as well as a number of private equity houses. He regularly represents clients before the UK's Office of Fair Trading...

Howard Jackson is President of HSA Consulting Inc, the world's premier warehouse club, discount & food retail consulting firm, since 1993. He is the leading expert on the Mexican retail market. HSA provides retail strategy, productivity/cost improvement, marketing, licensing & acquisition services....

Bill Kelley is the Principal of GordonBearcatResearch.com. Mr. Kelley specializes in several retailing businesses which are specified on his website. He works with investors, private equity specialists, and other consultants. Mr. Kelley was the Chairman, President and CEO of Consolidated Stores Corp....

Matthew Levine is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Natural Business News, an online publishing and internet news portal, which he founded in 2005. Mr. Levine is a freelance consultant, writer and researcher and a member of EcoSpeakers speaker's bureau and does freelance analysis...

Ron Marshall was, from 1998 until March of 2006, Chief Executive Officer of Nash Finch, a US$ 5B wholesale distributor supplying food and nonfood goods to more than 1,500 grocery stores in 27 states and 300 countries. In this role he quadrupled earnings over a six year period, improved EBITDA over 40%...

Art Patch is an Independent Consultant with Encore Associates, a strategic advisory firm, sales and marketing organization, and solutions provider to the national food and consumer goods industry. Most recently, he was the Vice President & General Manager at Food Maxx, a 44 store price impact division...

Tom Pirko is currently the President of Bevmark, a premier food & beverage Industry consulting firm providing strategic counsel to senior management of the world's leading food & beverage companies. Mr. Pirko is an expert on strategic planning, competition, mergers, acquisitions, manufacturing, marketing...

Christopher Roblings is the Owner of Tastees UK, a food import and export company that imports products from various European countries to the UK, where he has worked since November 2006. Mr. Roblings is an Independent UK Import Export Agent for Simonds Farsons Cisk Plc. He has also served as a Business...

Neil Saunders is a Consulting Director at Verdict Research. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of the consulting division and heads up most client projects, working with retail and consumer related companies to help develop, evolve and implement business strategies. Neil has also served...

Bill Schauber is a consultant at Encore Associates, a consumer packaged goods consultancy firm. Mr. Schauber is a supply chain and logistics operations executive with emphasis in procurement, distribution, logistics, import/export transportation and manufacturing. Prior, Mr. Schauber has worked with...

Rick Shea is the President of Shea Marketing Consulting Inc since July 2006, a firm that specializes in providing marketing expertise to CPG companies. He has over 20 years of marketing experience at CPG food companies including Kraft, Unilever, George Weston Bakeries and Malt-O-Meal cereals. Mr. Shea...