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How Sargento Foods Creates Principled Profits

Wednesday, March 16, 2005
7:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Location: Blue Bell Country Club
Breakfast buffet included

You?ve seen the name in the dairy aisle, Sargento Foods, and perhaps read about them in Family Business magazine. Now you?ll have an opportunity to ?get inside? this successful third-generation family business owned by the Gentine family. Learn how their values directly impact their employees, customers, and the bottom line.

Barbara Gannon will share the Sargento Foods? journey and will also suggest processes for defining and nurturing corporate culture for your organization.

Learn how the Gentine family and their employees run their business according to a 50-page code of conduct, ?Our Corporate Culture: People, Pride and Progress?. This was created to reflect the founder?s values and ensure that they would continue to share the company?s future whether or not a Gentine remained involved in the day-to-day management. Participants will receive this publication, an excellent best practice for any organization.

Learn how Sargento?s Code of Business and Personal Ethics drive this family business icon:

● We will be Legal ● We will be Honest ● We will be Responsible
● We will be Moral ● We will be Respectful ● We will be Fair

Click here to read about Sargento in Family Business magazine.

Meet the Speaker: Barbara Gannon

Sargento Foods is a $534 million, family-owned international marketer of value-added cheese and related products located in Plymouth, Wisconsin. Barbara Gannon, Sargento?s Vice President of Corporate & Marketing Communications, states, ?The fact that there?s a real family behind our company substantiates every claim we make. It validates our passion. And, as such, it will be the filter through which all other communications are funneled.?

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Directions:

Blue Bell Country Club
1800 Tournament Drive
Blue Bell, PA 19422
(Phone) 215-616-8100
www.bluebellcc.com

Directions From the New Jersey Turnpike
1. Follow the New Jersey Turnpike to the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Exit 6 on NJ Turnpike.)
2. Take the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the Norristown Exit (Exit 25).
3. From the Norristown Exit, follow road signs to Plymouth Road ? follow around to the light and make a left at the stop sign. Go to the light (Germantown Pike West) and make a right.
4. Stay on Germantown Pike West for two and one-half (2 1/2) miles. (Plymouth Meeting Mall to right.)
5. You will come to Route 202. Turn right onto Route 202 heading North.
6. Stay on Route 202 North for two and one-half (2 ?) miles. You will go through the intersection at Route 73.
7. There is a traffic light at the entrance to Blue Bell Country Club, across the street from the entrance to Montgomery County Community College.
8. Turn left at this light onto Tournament Drive and proceed to the BBCC Gatehouse. Tell Gatehouse guard that you are going to the Family Business Forum at the Blue Bell Country Club.
9. Follow Tournament Drive to the Clubhouse (1/3 of a mile on the left hand side.)

Directions From the Philadelphia Airport
1. Upon leaving the airport, follow signs to 95 South.
2. Take 95 South and follow signs for Blue Route (476) North
3. Take Blue Route (476) north to the Germantown Pike West exit (this will be on the right before the toll booths at the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
4. Follow the directions below, starting at the arrows (>>>)

Directions From Route 76 to Blue Route North (476)
1. Take the Blue Route North to the Germantown Pike West Exit (this will be to the right before the toll booths.)
2. (>>>) Follow the exit ramp to Germantown Pike West.
3. Stay on Germantown Pike West for two and one-half (2 1/2) miles. (Plymouth Meeting Mall to right.)
4. You will come to Route 202. Turn right onto Route 202 heading North.
5. Stay on Route 202 North for two and one-half (2 ?) miles. You will go through the intersection at Route 73.
6. There is a traffic light at the entrance to Blue Bell Country Club, across the street from the entrance to Montgomery County Community College.
7. Turn left at this light onto Tournament Drive and proceed to the BBCC Gatehouse. Tell Gatehouse guard that you are going to the Family Business Forum at the Blue Bell Country Club.
8. Follow Tournament Drive to the Clubhouse (1/3 of a mile on the left hand side.)

Directions From Route 309 to Route 202 South
1. Follow Route 309 to Route 202 South.
2. Follow Route 202 South to Blue Bell Country Club (approximately 10 minutes from this point.)
3. Turn right onto Tournament Drive and the BBCC Gatehouse.
4. Follow Tournament Drive to the Clubhouse (1/3 of a mile on the left hand side.)