Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 - (Page 10) 2008 Executives of the Year AT A GLANCE: Company: Snak King Corp. Location: City of Industry, Calif. Web site: www.snakking.com Products: Popcorn, cheese corn, cheese curls, cheese puffs, pork rinds, tortilla chips. No. of Plants: One No. of Employees: 330 KEY PERSONNEL: Chairman & CEO: Barry Levin President & COO: Ron Jones V.P. Sales & Marketing: Joe Papiri V.P. Operations: Mark Schieldge V.P. Finance: Vesna Kelley Continued from page 9 Before Top left and middle: In October 2004, heavy rainfalls forced a 12,000-sq.-ft. chunk of roof to collapse and crash down on three tortilla lines, creating a three-year-long cleanup project and renovation of Snak King’s facility in City of Industry, Calif. (Photos courtesy of Snak King Corp.) After Bottom: Barry Levin, company chairman and CEO, examines the refurbished roof with SF&WB’s managing editor, Marina Mayer. (Photo by Vito Palmisano) It took the company three years and more than $30 million to fully rebuild the plant and retool the operations to its current condition. Certainly, there were times when it seemed that the job would never get done. Almost immediately after the roof collapse, Snak King’s management team jumped into action to get the plant up and running. While employees waded through water to gather debris and remove chunks of the roof, Ron Jones, Snak King’s president and chief operating officer, directed operations to clean up the usable equipment and put it into a configuration that would allow it to crank out products. Meanwhile, Joe Papiri, vice president of sales and marketing, accepted the aid of competing snack producers who offered to outsource or co-pack snack products. As a result, the company was able to provide a steady supply to customers and maintain position in the market. During the rebuilding effort, Snak King hired Mark Schieldge as vice president of operations to oversee the major improvements of the plant. Despite the benefits associated with installing new equipment, Schieldge says they still needed to do a lot of training and development of employees. Plus, the overall layout of the operation needed to change because the new equipContinued on page 12 10 Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - NOVEMBER 2008 www.snackandbakery.com http://www.snakking.com http://www.snackandbakery.com
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 Contents Editor’s Note Cover Story: The Comeback King Royal Treatment Let Freedom Ring New Products The Heat is On Engineering Management Going in New Directions Warm Up with Cold Treats The Final Word Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 - Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 (Page Cover1) Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 - Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 (Page Cover2) Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 - Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 (Page 1) Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 - Contents (Page 2) Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 - Contents (Page 3) Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 - Contents (Page 4) Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - November 2008 - Contents (Page 5) Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - 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