Take your time back and grow your business What’s your most valuable commodity? For me, the answer to that question is “my TIME”. Each of us only has so much time and when it’s gone you can never get it back. When you’re in a leadership position (or any position for that matter) you should […]
Author: Shawn Burcham
The Unstoppable Power of Consistency
How to Improve Consistency In Your Business One major factor resulting in the staying power of the world’s most stable companies is consistency. Take any S&P 500 blue chip company and you can narrow down their success to a few products that have been perfected and consistently delivered over and over again. Their success is […]
PEPPER – How to be Successful in the Foodservice Business
The Foodservice Business Secret Ingredient? Want business success? Just add a dash of PEPPER! Make sense? It might not right now but below you will see the “PEPPER” strategy that our company PFSbrands uses to execute any foodservice business strategy we put into place! Give it a read and try it with your own company.
Owner Outlook: Letter from the CEO
My First Owner Outlook CEO Letter Recently PFSbrands started sending out a quarterly Newsletter to all employee owners called Owner Outlook. This valuable newsletter is meant to help our employee owners tell their friends and family what is going on at PFSbrands – sometimes it’s hard to keep up! Below is the letter I wrote […]
Forbes Feature: Why ESOPs Can Be More Than an Exit Strategy
As Seen on Forbes.com I am passionate about providing our employees a stake in the outcome and spreading that message to other CEOs. To help spread the message further, PFSbrands was recently featured on Forbes.com about our newly-formed ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). You can read the full article on Forbes.com! Here’s an excerpt:
Culture, Open-Book Management, ESOP, and Discovery Days
Spreading a Positive Culture About 6 months ago we invited one of our chain customers, Good2Go, into our corporate office for what we called Discovery Days. By the way, thanks David Adams for taking the time and effort to come all the way to Missouri from Idaho. This was an effort to bring a well-respected customer […]
I Could Not Survive Without My Senior Leadership Team
PFSbrands Senior Leadership Team My wife Julie and I founded Pro Food Systems (PFSbrands) in 1998. I’ve led PFSbrands for over 18 years and during that time, there has been a massive amount of changes. Not only has our customer base grown and changed, but our internal organizational structure has changed dramatically as well. Today, […]
It’s Time For A Change!
The Future of PFSbrands After 18 years of blood, sweat, and tears Julie and I have sold Pro Food Systems (PFSbrands). Those of you that have owned, or do own, a company realize the hard work it takes to make it successful. Julie and I have put everything we have into PFSbrands. We are extremely proud […]
A CEOs Personal Responsibility: Self-Improvement
Self-Improvement is Your Duty as CEO One of the best ways to develop business strategies as a CEO or move up the corporate ladder as an employee is self-improvement. Basically, taking the personal responsibility to improve yourself. From brushing up on industry insights to watching a webinar on cutting-edge social media tools to reading how […]
What is a Financial Huddle?
The Great Financial Huddle Recently a friend of PFSbrands, G3CFO founder Mark Gandy, published an interview with our CFO Trevor Monnig on LinkedIn (you can get the full article here). This article is really the epitome of what we are doing at our company to help spread financial literacy and improve ownership thinking by helping […]