Golden County Foods Announces Executive Changes

10/15/08:

Golden County Foods Announces Executive Changes. Golden County Foods Chairman Terry O’Brien announced the hiring of Ray Booth as CEO and Doug Reed as CFO in conjunction with other changes at the frozen foods manufacturer. Booth previously served as COO at Country Fresh Dairy and as COO at Dallas-based Reddy Ice. Reed has served in a variety of senior financial positions at Frito Lay, Heinz and most recently as CFO at privately owned _____in Harrisburg, PA. Both executives will be based in Plover, Wisconsin.

O’Brien noted “Having worked previously with Ray Booth, I have no doubt he will bring the leadership, efficiency focus and support for new innovation that we need to take this company to the next level. Golden County Foods has always had an extremely high level of customer service and this will continue under Ray. Additionally, adding a CFO like Doug Reed will help us greatly in providing more financial insight to our management team, our Board and our lenders. We acquired this company after seeing the excellent assets, talent and commitment. We intend to move quickly to strengthen the company from an infrastructure, sales and marketing standpoint to allow the historic growth to continue."

The moves follow the investment by Wholesome Holdings and Brazos Private Equity Partners in a very large, state of the art capacity expansion of its Plover, WI appetizer facility. In tandem with the expansion, new sales and marketing talent was recruited to further expand growth. The company is amongst the leaders in providing batter, breaded appetizers and frozen snacks to the retail and foodservice channels. Several top food manufacturers have divested of their production lines and moved production into Golden County’s facilities.