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 Accenture
A-Cent Technologies
Arrowsight
Carttronics
Catalina Marketing
Services
Chicken of the Sea
Int’l
Distribution
Services Inc.
Driveline-Retail
Dole Packaged Foods
ECOLAB
Freight Handlers
Inc
HealthplaceAmerica
IPDA (Int’l
Periodicals and
Distributors
Associations
INMAR …CLS/CMS
Int’l Speedway Corp
Johnson O’Hare
Company
Labella Sausage
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Loyalty Marketing Analytics
Mass Connections
Inc.
Musco Family Olive
Co
Nestle-Purina
PetCare
NetSpend
Nielsen
ONE Network
Pepperidge Farm
PepsiCo
POPRadio
Priva Technologies
Retail Sports
Marketing
Ruiz Foods
Source Interlink
Cos
SteelKor
Sterilox-PuriCore
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
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Friends of the Industry,
LLC®
Friends of the Industry, LLC® is a subsidiary of Kies Consulting, LLC
incorporated in 2005. The Friends of the Industry, LLC hosts and manages
an annual dinner in conjunction with the Food Marketing Institute’s
Midwinter Conference held every January. The “Friends Dinner” has become
the largest attended dinner of the supermarket industry’s leadership and
senior executives. The 10th Annual Dinner was held in January 2008 and
attended by 400 industry executives and their guests. The primary
sponsors are listed below. Proceeds from the dinner are converted to
educational funds directed by the attending retail/wholesale executives.
The aggregate amount of educational funds over the past decade exceeds
$500,000.
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Accenture
Catalina Marketing
CHEP
Clorox
Coca-Cola
CoMag Marketing
CROSSMARK
Dole Packaged Foods
Driveline Retail
DIAGEO
Freight Handlers, Inc
Georgia-Pacific
Hallmark
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Hershey
JM Smucker
Kimberly-Clark
Kraft Foods
McCormick
Musco Olive
Nestle-Purina & Waters
Nielsen
PepsiCo
Procter & Gamble
Source Interlink
SPAR Group
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
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Supporters
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Al Marasca (retired Ralphs)
Allan Noddle (retired Royal Ahold)
Chicken of the Sea Int’l
Daymon Worldwide
ECOLAB
INMAR …CLS/CMS
Johnson O’Hare Co.
LaBella Sauage
LiDestri Foods
Market 6
Mass Connections
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OK
Communications
ONE Network
Pepperidge Farm
Pinnacle Foods
RBS WorldPay
Rehrig Pacific Company
Ruiz Foods
Sara Lee
SelfEthics Marketing
Supermarket News
TRPeets Consulting
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Prior Affiliations of Kies Consulting,
LLC
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AfterBOT
Appetizers, Inc.
Barilla USA
Berry Plastics
Blattberg & Associates
BrandAid Communications
Campbell’s Soup Company
CasioSoft
Certified Grocers of CA
Cinnabon
Coach Master Int’l
CoMag Marketing
DataWealth.com
Dean/Morningstar Foods
Delano
Display Edge Technology
ems, inc.
Engage, Inc.
EVAC
Federated Group
i2 Technologies
IBM
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ICIX
Imagitas
Labatt USA
marketing drive worldwide
Maytag
McCraken Brooks
MediaPoint
Merck & Co.
Muhleman Marketing
National Wholesale
 Druggists Assn
News Corp.
Park City Group
Percipient
Retail Marketing
Professionals
SPAR Group
Sylvester Winery
Syncra Systems
viaLink Company
Wenner Bread
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