Meat + Poultry - June 2006 - 66

Names in the News

Jerry Ruta (right), president of Ruby Tuesday
Minneapolis, received the Minnesota Turkey
Research and Promotion Council's Promoter of
the Year award from president Rick Klaphake.

The Minnesota Turkey Research and
Promotion Council has honored Ruby
Tuesday Minneapolis with its 2006
Promoter of the Year award. The award
was presented during the M.T.R.P.C.
annual meeting on March 22. According to Ruby Tuesday Minneapolis,
approximately 35,000 lbs. of turkey
burgers and 15,000 lbs. of other turkey
products are sold each week in Ruby
Tuesday restaurants across the county.
Poore Brothers, Inc., Goodyear, Ariz.,
recently appointed Terry McDaniel to
the position of C.O.O. McDaniel will be
responsible for leading all day-to-day
operations of the company, with an emphasis on profitable revenue growth. He
is also a key contributor to the creation
and execution of new ventures designed
to help the company achieve its vision
of building a family of "Intensely Different" consumer brands.
Golden State Foods, Irvine, Calif.,
has named Dr. Wayne Morgan vice
president of meat products, replacing
the retired David Gilbert.
Morgan, a G.S.F. employee since
1998, will work at the company's
Conyers, Ga. plant, supervising meat
operations and overseeing operations
at G.S.F.'s facility in City of Industry,
Calif. He will report to Frank Listi,
G.S.F. senior executive vice president.

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Joe Sanderson, Jr.,
C.E.O. of Laurel,
Miss.-based Sanderson Farms, was inducted into the
Mississippi Business Hall of Fame.
In other company news, Sanderson
Farms announced the resignation of
Robert Sanderson from his position
on the company's board of directors.

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Columbus, Ohio-based Bob Evans
Farms, Inc. has appointed Steven
Davis as C.E.O. Davis replaces Larry
Corbin, who had been C.E.O. and president on an interim basis since August.
Both men will serve on the company's
board of directors.

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Michael Quint has been appointed
vice president of sales for West Liberty Foods, L.L.C., West Liberty, Iowa.
Quint has more than 20 years of experience in strategic and tactical marketing, business development and sales
management.

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Mt. Pleasant Foods, Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa, recently selected Gregory Staley
as its new plant manager. Most recently,
Staley worked as plant manager for a
slicing facility in Kinston, N.C.
More than 750
students seeking careers in
the food industry will receive financial aid from
contributions made to the 2005 Frozen
Food Industry Memorial Scholarship
Foundation, Harrisburg, Pa. Twenty-four
colleges and universities benefit from
the program which was launched 15
years ago by the Distinguished Order of
Zerocrats with support from the National
Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association, the American Frozen Food Institute and related industry groups.

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