Central Region Driver of the Month-June 2013

Please join us in congratulating Travis Lawler from our C & S account in Yorktown, IN.  Travis is our June 2013 Central Region Driver of the Month.

Travis joined JB Hunt DCS in October of 2012 and has not looked back. Travis has been "behind the wheel" since 1985. 10 members of his family are professional drivers with each over 20 years driving.

 

Safety is a priority and his record of 0 accidents/0 incidents shows the commitment. A total of 10 points in RAIR in 2013 8.46% average MPG and idle 18.1% in 2013 and several spotless tractor inspections are more examples of why Travis should be DOM. 

 

Travis was instrumental in the routing and improved delivery service to the C&S Michigan market. As our "go to driver," Travis has assisted at JMC, Northwest Hardwoods (flatbed) Champion Windows, Falcon Packaging, Chep, Quaker, PSP and last but not least the Soft Lite start up in Streetsboro, OH. "Doesn't matter what I haul or where I go, I just want to drive."

 

 

 

Comments from Andrew Wylie/Chep -

Travis does an excellent job filling in at the Chep Indianapolis account. He always works efficiently and makes sure that the customers needs are met. His paperwork is flawless and he always has a positive attitude. We are fortunate to have his support in times of need.

Comments from Josh Kimble/Quaker -

Travis has worked for my account several times and I am very impressed with his professionalism and dedication he has to his job. He has done anything and everything I have ask him to do with no complaints. He is very efficient and safe in what he does. He is a great team member to the J.B. Hunt family.

Congratulations are in order!

Help us congratulate Chelsi Cleveland from our PPG account.....she is the proud new mother of Colten Cecil Cleveland......here is a picture hot off the press!!!

CiCi's Announces New Leader

CiCi's Pizza has announced the retirement of CEO Mike Shumsky after a 30-plus year career serving the restaurant industry.
Shumsky joined CiCi's in 2009, and assembled a seasoned executive team to lead the organization. During his tenure, Shumsky and his team revived the product innovation program, established consistent brand standards across the system, rolled out new site models and point-of-sales systems and launched franchise financing and expansion programs. Under his leadership, CiCi's was named America's favorite pizza chain in a 2012 Market Force survey.
Shumsky will continue to operate in a consulting capacity through October 2013, to ensure an effective leadership transition, and will continue to be a significant shareholder in the company.
"We want to thank Mike for his tireless effort and leadership of CiCi's over the past four years," said Michael Lay, managing partner of ONCAP, the controlling shareholder of CiCi's. "Mike has been and continues to be a great partner, and we wish him all the best."

CiCi's has named franchising veteran Darin Harris as new CEO effective Aug. 12. An experienced franchise executive with nearly 20 years of experience, Harris was most recently chief operating officer for Primrose Schools, an Atlanta-based franchiser of educational child care centers.
Harris previously served as senior vice president for Arby's Restaurant Group where he led the development strategy for the $3 billion franchise group. He also has been a franchise owner and operator for multiple Papa John's Pizza and Qdoba Mexican Grill restaurants and held key franchise officer roles for Captain D's and Orion Foodsystems. Harris began his restaurant career with Pizza Hut.
"Given my background in all disciplines of franchising, specifically in the pizza sector, and as a past franchise owner and operator, I have direct knowledge of what it takes to work with franchisees to grow the brand," said Harris. "My first order of business will be to carefully study the brand and listen to CiCi's teams, franchise partners and guests to identify opportunities for growth as well as maximize franchisee and guest satisfaction."
Coppell, Texas-based CiCi's Pizza has approximately 500 restaurants in 34 states.

Crash Video-One Lucky Trooper

 It was a close call for one Wisconsin state trooper after his car was hit along the side of the road.
Take a look at this dash cam video:



Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper Jim Reese stopped a driver for speeding last Friday on I-43 in Sheboygan County.

As he was walking back to his vehicle, a semi hit the side.

There was considerable damage.

The truck driver was cited for inattentive driving and not obeying the Move Over Law.

The State Patrol says this is a reminder to move over or slow down when law enforcement and other emergency vehicles are on the side of roads.

Winning Through Business Integration

CHEP USA, a leading provider of managed pallet pooling solutions, was recently presented the 2013 Winning Through Business Integration award by Unilever North America, a leading marketer of consumer packaged goods. The award is given annually to Unilever suppliers that create synergies and align with the company’s overarching strategy to add value, grow business and reduce overall environmental impact.
In presenting the award, Unilever cited several achievements by CHEP USA including:

• CHEP has continuously added value by creating joint supply chain programs with Unilever resulting in significant savings annually; and
• CHEP has delivered more than $3 million in actual recognized savings through Joint Business Development Plans validated by Unilever North America.

“Unilever recognizes CHEP as a leader in supply chain efficiencies, and this award represents our appreciation for our partnership that has resulted in both a reduction in costs and increased productivity,” said Wendy Herrick, Vice President Customer Service & Logistics, Unilever North America.

Arkansas Business Article about J.B. Hunt

The only winner in the transportation industry is — no surprise — J.B. Hunt Transport Services of Lowell. In the past six years its stock has increased by 143.55 percent, rising from an adjusted close of $28.15 on July 2, 2007, to 73.49 on July 1, 2013.

What has J.B. Hunt done right?

Brad Delco, a transportation analyst with Stephens Inc. of Little Rock, noting that he covers only J.B. Hunt, USA Truck and Arkansas Best, said J.B. Hunt in some ways is no longer a trucking company. Instead, it’s a “multifaceted transportation service provider.”

Most of J.B. Hunt’s growth has been in the intermodal segment, the segment he calls the company’s “bread and butter,” which has been growing for the past decade. Rail efficiencies and on-time service have improved, Delco said, causing shippers to realize that they “can convert what were traditional truckload shipments, put them in a J.B. Hunt container and ship them by rail. It’s a cheaper rate and it saves money on fuel. And so J.B. Hunt has certainly benefited from that.”

The high cost of transforming their transportation models has largely prevented the other Arkansas carriers from following suit, he said, though USA Truck has taken steps in that direction and “seen good growth out of it. But they haven’t been in a position to make the type of investments needed in order to really grow that business the same way that J.B. Hunt has.”

Pet Supplies Plus - Company Overview

Pet Supplies Plus was founded in Redford, Michigan in 1988 by Harry Shallop and Jack Berry. They designed their stores to be more like grocery stores than your average cramped pet store. Pets were also welcome in the stores. The concept was an instant success.

 

By 1993, there were 30 stores and Harvey Solway joined the company as the third partner.

In the late 90s, the chain began to franchise and grew even more quickly.

In 2010, the company is acquired by private equity firm Irving Place Capital.

Today, there are 270 Pet Supplies Plus stores in 23 US states.

One Week Down......Start Up Success at Tyson's

Our Start Up team consisted of Jeff Holle, Anthony Warchol, Cort Duggins, and Todd Zoretic.

The Tyson Mack Truck's that the company drivers utilize in Kentucky.

The Tyson version of the wet kit with the 55 gal drum of hydraulic oil.

Our HD Freightliner.

The Warren wet kit with the simplified 8 gal chamber for hydraulic oil.

Notice the clean design of this Warren wet kit.

Cort Duggins going the extra mile so we can utilize Peoplenet to monitor our PTO at the farm deliveries.  This well help bring technology to our delivery process. 

Whirlpool Announces Earnings

Whirlpool reported earnings Friday. Here are the highlights:

• Sales for the second fiscal quarter of 2013 grew more than 4% to $4.7 billion.
• Operating profit margins climbed roughly two full percentage points, to 7%.
• Profits rose more than 70% to $2.44 per share.

Just how good was this news? "Sales increased in every region of the world as we continued to expand margins." That assertion from CEO Jeff Fettig pretty much sums up how great things are going for Whirlpool right now. So this story is bigger than just the reviving U.S. housing market, and a few more thousand homeowners buying washers and dryers to outfit their new digs. Demand for Whirlpool products is increasing across the board, and around the globe:

• North America -- sales up 5%, with profits growing twice as fast.
• Europe, the Middle East, and Africa -- sales up 6%, with losses shrinking.
• Latin America -- sales up 6%, and profitable.
• Asia -- sales up 4%, albeit less profitably.

The valuation
And it gets better. With business booming, Whirlpool now predicts it will earn as much as $10 per share on profits from ongoing business operations this year. GAAP: $10.05 to $10.55 per share. At the upper end, therefore, this stock could be trading for as little as 12.2 times Whirlpool earnings for this year.
Free cash flow is growing, too. Viewed under the harshest possible light, I see $386 million in FCF for the past 12 months. So even with free cash flow continuing to lag reported earnings, that means the stock costs about 26.5 times trailing FCF. That's not at all unreasonable for a stock projected to grow earnings at 26% annually over the next five years.
Long story short, after seeing Whirlpool's earnings report, I'd say the stock is looking pretty cheap today. At worst, focusing on FCF rather than GAAP earnings, it still looks fairly valued.
Yes, even though Whirlpool is building things in America again. Imagine that.

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PPG Announces Earnings

PPG Industries Inc.'s (PPG) second-quarter earnings fell 5.8% as impacts from the separation of the paint-and-coatings supplier's former commodity chemicals business earlier this year masking improved sales.

Results beat expectations.

About a year ago, PPG agreed to form a new company by separating its chemicals business and merging the unit with Georgia Gulf Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $2.1 billion. The deal was completed in late January, with the new company called Axiall Corp. (AXLL).

PPG, which also makes coatings for the auto, aircraft and other markets, has been shifting its emphasis to paint and other coatings from glass and chemicals. In December, PPG agreed to buy the North American architectural coatings business of Amsterdam's Akzo Nobel NV (AKZOY, AKZA.AE) for $875 million in a bid to increase its exposure in the region ahead of a recovering U.S. construction market. Akzo accounted for about $475 million in sales this quarter.

Overall, PPG reported a profit of $341 million, or $2.35 a share, versus a year-earlier profit of $362 million, or $2.34 cents a share. Excluding acquisition-related charges, earnings were $2.45 a share.

Net sales climbed 16% to $4.1 billion.

WoW!

 

 

WOW’s go out to Mark Harmeyer, Dallas Mudd, Scott Tully and Randy Beck, Penske shop manager. Thursday morning at 2 Am Mark’s truck broke down at the very beginning of his route to Ohio. Dallas and Scott scrambled to resolve this issue but as of 8 Am Mark was being towed back to Richmond while we figured out the best option to get him another truck. We had been told that Penske had no sub’s available but at 8 Am Randy was able to work some magic and a sub became available here in Richmond. To make a long story short Media was going on, stores were out of product and we had no equipment to deliver them. Mark got a new truck, Dallas volunteered to go with Mark to expedite the unloading at the stores, although behind schedule Mark and Dallas pushed through the heat of Thursday afternoon to take care of our customers, OUR Franchisees. I think I see a big S on their chest. S for Superman. Way to come through for our Franchisees. I know they appreciated the great effort.

Dudley Harris

JMC Restaurant Distribution Manager

910 Progress Drive

Richmond, Indiana 47374

 

View from a U.S. Executive

This was an exerpt from an interview with Jack Butorac, CEO of Marco's Pizza:

What are your biggest challenges now?

 

The biggest threat to us today — and I don’t see a lot, I’m not afraid of competition — is government. I was at a convention last week when the government announced the delay in Obamacare. That was good, because we’re concerned about how to manage it, how we can be the best employer and attract the best people. I don’t know what government is going to do. The more they get involved in our business, the more concerned I get. They haven’t done a lot of things well, hopefully this will be the first. They seem to want to get more involved in regulating our activities. We like things like the sensitivity to obesity, it’s on target and it helped us come up with low-fat alternatives. It’s one reason we created salads and did what we did with the subs. So, we want their advice but don’t want to be dictated to

Central Region Start Up - Tyson's Robards, KY

We are involved in our first true integrated operation with the Tyson Team here in Robards, KY.  The below will showcase some of the sites and scenes from egg to slaughter.

New Agronomy Strategy at Southern States

Southern States Cooperative announced a new Agronomy Business Unit to better serve the needs of core agricultural customers. Southern States offers a range of products and services to help growers in the field.
“We have reorganized our wholesale crops division, with 67 retail stores located in 13 high volume agronomy districts, to form the new Agronomy Business Unit. Our new growth strategy will enable us to be more streamlined and efficient from sourcing products to application in our farmers’ fields,” said Tom Scribner, Southern States president and CEO. “For years Southern States has been organized around wholesale and retail business units. To ensure we create great customer experiences, we are aligning our infrastructure and associates to meet the evolving needs of our farmer producers and rural lifestyle customers.”
“As we celebrate our 90^th anniversary, we are recommitting our efforts to provide farmers with the latest in technology and support,” said Scribner. “True to our mission of helping people grow things, it is our belief that an intense focus on the producer will allow us to meet and exceed our customer’s needs. The agricultural industry is changing rapidly and we plan to be at the forefront of those improvements. Our board of directors has approved investments in new equipment, personnel and facilities to better serve our farmer producers in key markets.”
As part of the multi-pronged strategy, Southern States will expand offerings with branded dealers, independent dealers and commercial accounts. Additionally, a small number of retail locations – less than 2 percent of total retail reach – will be closed or consolidated across the 17-state commercial region by late-July. Additional retail stores, as well as independent dealers for Southern States branded products, will be added in the future. Stores will focus on rural America customers in high-growth markets including cow calf operators, equine customers, gardeners and rural enthusiasts.
Scribner added that Southern States is investing in a series of operational changes, including inventory management and point-of-sale systems that will improve the experience and ease of doing business for all customers.
Customers will begin to see these changes in mid-July and throughout the fall.

Southern States Announces Retail Store Closings

 

Southern States Cooperative today announced the closing of eight retail locations in northern Alabama, including the Athens, Centre, Cullman, Danville, Geraldine, Headland, Henagar and Oneonta locations. Following the store closings, to be completed by late-July, Southern States products will be available in the region through wholesale distribution and an expanding network of independent dealers.
“We’ve launched a significant new growth strategy that will focus on high potential agricultural markets for our future and the future of farmers who own Southern States,” said Tom Scribner, Southern States president and CEO. “Unfortunately, that strategy requires closing a small number of outlets in markets that are not as well positioned for future growth.”

The local stores are among a small number of locations closing across the Cooperative’s 17-state region, representing less than 2 percent of total retail reach.

“We’re launching a new Agronomy Business Unit to take care of farmers from sourcing the products to application in the field,” said Scribner. “We believe an intense focus on the producer will allow us to serve our customers better, and reallocating capital from closed stores will help fulfill that promise. Southern States has been helping farmers feed the world for 90 years – and we plan on being a major part of this global effort far into the future.”

Scribner adds that despite store closings, Southern States will continue to support local farmers through direct delivery and wholesale distribution. Also, many customers of Southern States feed and other products will now be able to buy them through independently-owned dealerships.

WOW! Delivering Service CiCi's Style

Mick McCardle at #572 called to say what a great driver Mark is. Last week, Mick was out of town and his wife Linda was going to put up the truck.

Mark told her he could do it. He stacked everything and put it all up for her.

Mick also said he is friendly and helpful while he is in the store representing DCS and JMC. He always catches damaged products or miss-pulls.

And he is always on time or early!

Thanks, Mark, for setting the standard for our drivers.

Marion Harris

JMC Customer Success

Proudly serving CiCis Pizza

Sales Up, Profits Down for Family Dollar

Sales rose but profits fell at Family Dollar during its third quarter, the discount retailer reported Wednesday, reflecting both strong sales of low-margin products such as tobacco and frozen foods and more money spent on new stores.

Family Dollar's sales were up 9 percent from the third quarter last year, finishing at $2.57 billion. The Matthews-based retailer attributed the sales jump to high customer traffic and a boost in sales of consumables -- a broad category that includes food, health and beauty aids, and tobacco. Consumable sales rose 14.8 percent from a year ago.

Since the start of the downturn, Family Dollar has gradually added consumable items, such as milk and cheese, and most recently tobacco. Consumables accounted for more than 70 percent of the retailer's sales in the third quarter, Family Dollar reported.

Emphasizing those products helped Family Dollar capture high-earning customers trying to save a few bucks during the downturn, said Brian Youngblood, a consumer analyst for Edward Jones. And those customers are still visiting.

"They (Family Dollar) are still not seeing those customers making $70,000-plus go away," he said.
Despite a rise in third-quarter sales, Family Dollar's profit dropped by more than $4 million from the same time last year, sinking to $120.9 million. The retailer earned $1.05 per diluted share for the quarter, down from $1.06 last year.

Family Dollar said the weakened profits stemmed from strong sales of low-margin products compared to discretionary items that offer higher profit margins, such as apparel and accessories. Apparel and accessory sales were down 8.9 percent from a year ago.

"Our discretionary sales remained challenged as our costumers have been forced to make spending choices between basic needs and want," CEO Howard Levine said. "Consistent with market trends, we expect that our customers will continue to face financial headwinds

Sales Flat at L Brands

Warm weather drove summer clearance sales last month, helping many national retailers to post strong sales gains even as Columbus-based L Brands suffered a rare June swoon.
L Brands (the temporary name for Limited Brands) reported flat comparable-store sales, falling short of Wall Street expectations for the second time in the past three months. But traders shrugged off the news and sent shares up by 3.4 percent to close at $52.33.
The flat sales at L Brands were unusual not only for the company but among national retailers, as some companies reported their strongest sales gains since January.
According to a preliminary tally of 12 retailers by the International Council of Shopping Centers, revenue at stores opened at least a year — an industry measure of a store’s health — rose 3.9 percent in June from the same month a year ago. The mall trade group had expected an increase of 3 to 3.5 percent.
The overall good retail news was due to “an improving labor market coupled with falling gas prices during the month, seasonably warmer temperatures that drove summer clearance, rising home prices and generally better macroeconomic conditions,” said Ken Perkins, president of RetailMetrics, a research firm. “Second-quarter same-store sales expectations have also been ticking up of late.”
Among the retailers that topped Wall Street expectations were Stein Mart, which posted a 6.5 percent comparable-store sales increase, above analysts’ predictions of a 4 percent rise; and Costco, which saw a 6 percent rise, better than the expected 5.4 percent increase.
The data, released yesterday, offer positive signs for the back-to-school season, which is the second-biggest shopping period behind the winter holidays. June is when stores clear out summer merchandise to make room for goods for fall, so brisk sales mean that stores likely won’t be stuck with summer clothing that they need to get rid of.
“The reports are encouraging,” said Michael P. Niemira, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers. “We had seen consumers pull back a little earlier this year, but now there’s a willingness to spend. It adds to the flavor of the other economic data out there that looks better.”
L Brands did see sales rise to $1.101 billion in June, up from $1.077 billion during the same month last year. In addition, profit margins on merchandise were up, “above our expectations,” said Amie Preston, chief investor relations officer.
L Brands’ disappointing comparable-store sales were primarily due to a 1 percent decrease at the company’s Victoria’s Secret stores, and a 9 percent drop in sales at Victoria’s Secret Direct, the chain’s online and catalog business.
L Brands officials blamed the decreases on lower clearance sales caused by a shift in the timing of the semi-annual sale.
Comparable-store sales were flat at the company’s Canadian lingerie chain, La Senza.
Only the company’s personal care and home-fragrance chain, Bath & Body Works, saw comparable-store sales grow, by 2 percent. The increase was driven by sales in the signature collection, home fragrance and soap and sanitizer, Preston said.
L Brands officials were cautiously optimistic about July sales, predicting low single-digit gains for comparable-store sales.
For the year to date, L Brands reported sales of $4.1 billion, an increase from $3.9 billion for the same time last year, and a comparable-store sales increase of 2 percent for the year to date.

PPG Recognized by The Chemists' Club

The ICIS Kavaler Award, sponsored by The Chemists' Club in recognition for outstanding achievement as voted on by his peers, will be awarded to PPG Industries chairman and CEO Charles E. Bunch.

This unique global chemical industry award will be presented to Mr. Bunch at a black tie dinner ceremony on Thursday, October 30, 2013, at the Lotos Club in New York City.

The distinguishing feature of this award is that the winner is selected by his/her peers - the senior executives selected in the ICIS Top 40 Power Players listinga global ranking of the people making the greatest impact on the chemical industry.

"We congratulate Mr. Bunch for his outstanding and newsworthy achievements, including a landmark deal to separate its commodity chemicals business and merge it with Georgia Gulf to create Axiall, boosting shareholder value significantly," said Joseph Chang, Global Editor of ICIS Chemical Business.

"Acquisitions to PPG's core coatings business have also added value, and this has continued into 2013 with the acquisition of AkzoNobel's North American architectural coatings business," he added.
"During the past several years PPG has made significant progress focusing our business portfolio and activities in pursuit of our vision to continue to be the world's leading coatings and specialty products company," said Charles E. Bunch, PPG chairman and CEO.

"I am pleased to accept this recognition on behalf of all PPG employees who have worked so hard to achieve these noteworthy accomplishments in our industry," he added.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/11/5559622/ppg-industries-chairman-and-ceo.html#storylink=cpy

Central Region Promotion Announcement

Please join us in congratulating John Goodwin on the promotion to Account Manager for MBM in Columbus, OH. In his new role John will be taking on the start up of 6 trucks and drivers running refrigerated shuttles between Columbus, OH and Archbold, OH. John just recently celebrated his two year anniversary with J.B. Hunt on July 11th. He first joined J.B. Hunt in 2011 as Senior Transportation Sales Coordinator with the Columbus ICS branch. In April of this year John inquired about joining the DCS team in the Central Region and moved into a DMIT role, over the last two months he spent the majority of his time helping out between AGC Hebron and The Limited in Reynoldsburg.

John is a proud BGSU grad and an avid Buckeye fan. Prior to coming on with J.B. Hunt he spent two years with Sherwin Williams and four years with Pella as an Architectural Rep.

Let us all congratulate John on his promotion and wish him continued success!

Central Region New Employee Welcome Announcement

Please welcome the newest member of the Central Region in Sheldon Williams, who is the new Operations Supervisor for the Pet Supplies Plus account in Seymour, IN. Sheldon is a proud Hoosier from Indiana University - South East in New Albany, IN where he studied Criminal Justice.

 

Sheldon joins J.B. Hunt after working for three years at UPS as a Supervisor in their World Port Freight Facility in Louisville, KY. In his spare time, he enjoys playing music and is an avid outdoors man. Sheldon and his wife (Carolina) reside in Jeffersonville, IN. Please join us in welcoming Sheldon to the Central Region!

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia declaring the United States independent from Great Britain.^[4][5] After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision, which had been prepared by a Committee of Five, with Thomas Jefferson as its principal author. Congress debated and revised the wording of the Declaration, finally approving it on July 4. A day earlier, John Adams had written to his wife Abigail:

The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

Adams's prediction was off by two days. From the outset, Americans celebrated independence on July 4, the date shown on the much-publicized Declaration of Independence, rather than on July 2, the date the resolution of independence was approved in a closed session of Congress.^[

Historians have long disputed whether Congress actually signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, even though Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin all later wrote that they had signed it on that day. Most historians have concluded that the Declaration was signed nearly a month after its adoption, on August 2, 1776, and not on July 4 as is commonly believed.

In a remarkable coincidence, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only signers of the Declaration of Independence later to serve as Presidents of the United States, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration. Although not a signer of the Declaration of Independence, but another Founding Father who became a President, James Monroe, died on July 4, 1831, thus becoming the third President in a row who died on this memorable day. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President, was born on July 4, 1872, and, so far, is the only President to have been born on Independence Day.

OVACO Moves Forward

See the fresh dirt that has been moved?  This is the beginning of a huge capital project in Shelbyville, KY.  Our partners at OVACO are looking at adding concrete to their existing lot (THANK YOU).  The new site is being prepared to handle a new trailer shop and 2 new receiving docks.  The ultimate goal is for OVACO to receive more scrap (an extremely competitive endeavor right now).

We are all looking forward to the improvements to our OVACO site and applaud them for taking on such a bold move.

A Proud Day for Jerry Hoban and all Buccaneers!

On Thursday, Goya Foods honored the lifetime achievement of former Pittsburgh Pirate, Roberto Clemente.

In celebration of his 40^th anniversary into the Baseball Hall of Fame, a life size statue was presented at the Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx. Also celebrating its 40^th anniversary is the Roberto Clemente State Park .

Originally the park’s name was the Harlem River Park. Following the death of Roberto Clemente , the 25-acre waterfront park located along the Harlem River in the Bronx was renamed in honor of in honor of the baseball Legend.

The bronze statue, sculpted by Maritza Hernandez, weighs approximately 3,000 pounds. The statue will stand at a total height of seven feet tall on a four foot granite pedestal.

It will portray one of Clemente’s moment of acknowledging the fans after his 3,000th hit. Here’s a couple of photos from Thursday’s unveiling and celebration of the life of Roberto Clemente, the amazing ballplayer and humanitarian

Thank You---The Cargill Way

 

Due to a driver shortage at our Cargill-Swanton, VT mill, we have been assisting with drivers from our Cargill-Salem, NY site.  Check out this accolade received as a result of our Customer Value Delivery:

This is a note from our Cargill office in Albany, NY:

It’s a brand new month, thus its time to announce the Thank You winners for June

J

We had 166 Thank You’s for the month of JUNE, congratulations to our 16 winners!

Steve Emlaw

Paul Williams

Mike Yole

Adam Weiser

Tim Fedor

Greta Schrader

Paul Williams

Pat Brady

Keith Gierke

Dave Rockwell

Kimberly Eley

John Kelly

Steve Mong

Brad Rogers

Roseann Reale

Matt Wood

We also had 13 driver Thank You’s. Congratulations to Joe Ramos our truck driver from Swanton!!  Joe stayed an additional Saturday to help out on his first week in Swanton, and has already made a second weeklong trip back to Vermont this week. 

Baby Announcement

 

Please join us in congratulating John Kemp and his family and their new addition----Alayna Belle arrived at 1448 Monday afternoon and she weighed 5 lbs 15 oz and 18" long.

We are very excited for John, Toni, and Tyler as they welcome a new addition to the Kemp Clan!

Its been a good DECADE

Congratulations to John Kemp......this past Sunday was his 10 year anniversary with J.B. Hunt.