Jake Englund – Director of Merchandising @ Wild Mikes Ultimate Pizza (S.A. Piazza & Associates)
Our Herd Freed Hartz executive search team was honored to partner with S.A. Piazza & Associates (“Wild Mikes Ultimate Pizza”) on a nationwide retained search to find their new Director of Merchandising.
S. A. Piazza & Associates, one of the fastest growing frozen food manufacturers in the US located in Clackamas, Oregon. The company has been growing at a 30% annual rate and are investing in building a new state of the art 360K square foot production facility in Redmond, Oregon scaling up capacity and new capabilities to 10x current production.
The family that founded the company in 1967 is on a five-year plan to take the company public in which all their employees have stock options and will get to participate in this event. This new facility will support their financial goal of being a Billion-dollar company.
Their Wild Mike’s Ultimate Pizza brand is distributed in all 50 states through a network of 67 retail chains. They also have a K-12 food service division, that has 15% of the school market, feeding approximately 50 million school children annually in 48 states.
Kevin Hartz, Managing Partner shared “We loved working with Wild Mike’s as they scale their team. Collaborating with you was a delightful experience!“
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