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National Food Group Announces New Vice President Sales – Food Distribution
National Food Group Announces New Vice President Sales – Food Distribution
Leading wholesale distributor creates new position to help accelerate continued sales growth
Novi, MI/San Diego, CA, November 8, 2019 – National Food Group, a leading wholesale food distributor, is pleased to welcome a new vice president and addition to the leadership team, Kelly Smythe. She will assume the role of Vice President Sales – Food Distribution which will comprise of the Corrections and Exclusive Markets sales segments.
Ms. Smythe will be responsible for helping the company continue on its profit growth and vision planning for the next five years and beyond. Her goal: to strategically create a process that will enable the sales team to focus on their growth initiatives and concentrate on what they already do best, which is build long-term relationships with their customers.
Kelly has an accomplished career in the food industry and leading large sales teams. She had spent 10 years at Hormel Foods where she became the highest ranked female and youngest director in Hormel Consumer Product Sales history. More recently, she spent the last five years as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Chief Operating Officer at Clementine Live Answering, offering telecommunications services within the Corrections industry, where her biggest accomplishment was building a “cohesive and effective team from 12 acquisitions.”
“I feel like I’m back home,” Kelly Smythe expresses. “I grew up in the food industry and I love the agility that National Food Group brings to the table which is a competitive advantage that most companies cannot compete with. This is a well-established company that has huge growth potential.”
Vice President Jim Moore added, “Kelly’s collective experience will be a tremendous addition to National Food Group. I know her drive and expertise in sales leadership will help us achieve our continued vision as the best brand in our industry.”
To learn more about the company and current career opportunities, visit
nationalfoodgroup.com
.
ABOUT NATIONAL FOOD GROUP
Founded in 1990, National Food Group is one of America’s fastest growing wholesale food service manufacturers and distributors. In 2016, the company launched its
Zee Zees®
brand of better-for-you portable snacks for kids of all ages, where fun is baked into every bite. New for 2019, National Food Group recently launched two new foodservice food brands,
Elated Plates®
and
Fare Promise®
to meet customer needs and price points. National Food Group offers three core programs to help make budgets and planning easy:
Always Available®
,
Opportunity Buys®
, and
Commodity Processing™
. Our team of food experts can also develop innovative items to meet custom nutritional and pricing requirements. The company is headquartered in Novi, Michigan with a west coast office in San Diego, California. For more information, visit
nationalfoodgroup.com
.
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