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Ali Group has promoted Filippo Berti to Chief Executive Officer, effective September 1. Berti will have responsibility for all of the Milan, Italy-based firm’s 77 brands and operating companies worldwide. He joined the Ali Group in May 2008 with the acquisition of Beverage-Air, where he held the role of president. He most recently served as CEO…

Unified Brands has added Kyle Graalum as Senior National Account Manager. He will manage existing chain business while also focusing on new customer growth for the Conyers, Ga., company and its five brands. Graalum’s résumé includes five years as a national accounts manager at ITW FEG.

Specifi LLC, the U.S.-based provider of end-to-end design information and solutions supporting the foodservice equipment specification process, has agreed to purchase the business of Schematic Ltd, the Edinburgh, Scotland-based supplier of Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, content creation and repository services to the European foodservice equipment industry.  “The acquisition of Schematic’s business reflects our commitment…

FEDA’s next webinar will focus on good sales time management, and how to maximize account potential against time investment. The program, Wednesday, June 1, will be led by FEDA speaker Joe Ellers and will concentrate on the four simple points: Establish clear sales priorities. Identify the true “value” of an account. Create some general “rules…

NSF International has launched the first-ever compliance verification program to cover the hygienic quality of commercial foodservice equipment under European guidelines and legislation. Its HCV EU (HACCP Compliance Verification) program offers a risk-based approach to verify the design and cleanability aspects of products offered in the EU commercial foodservice/catering equipment market. In addition to enabling…

Mars Air Systems has appointed Julie Konowitz, its longtime v.p.-customer satisfaction, to the role of V.P. -Food Service Sales and Corporate Marketing. “We recognized the opportunity to put a strong leader into a role that ensures we stay highly ensures we stay highly customer-centric and provide the support that keeps us a leading provider for…

Paris Baguette, the South Korean fast-casual bakery café chain, hopes to grow its U.S. footprint from 70 stores to 10% of its total store count by 2020. While its 3,500 stores dot the streets of South Korea, China, Singapore, Vietnam, and France, Paris Baguette only began franchising in the U.S. last year, a decade after…