January 12, 2004
AMERICAN FOODS GROUP SELECTS ITRADENETWORK'S E-BUSINESS SOLUTION
Solution Enables Seamless Connectivity to AFG Customers
Livermore, CA. January 12, 2004. iTradeNetwork (ITN) announced the completion of integration with ITN's collaborative workflow solution and American Foods Group back-end system. The integration enables both retail and foodservice purchase orders received and negotiated on the iTradeNetwork platform by American Foods Group sales personnel to flow seamlessly into American Foods Groups backend order management and shipping systems.
Carl Kuehne, Owner and CEO of American Foods Group said, "Our goal is to know and understand our customer needs for both product and services, and to deliver consistent products that meet and exceed our retail and foodservice customers' needs and expectations. Our customers are using the ITN e-business solution to transact business with American Foods Group and we are pleased with the way the solution has provided another tool to provide higher quality service for our customers."
"We have enjoyed our business relationship with American Foods Group. We continue to focus on building critical mass of buyers and sellers with over 2,300 customers. Being able to service multiple customers with a single point of integration provides significant economic advantages over alternative technologies. Our solution continues to gain widespread adoption throughout the meat industry having already established business relationships with over 43 meat suppliers" said Robert Bonavito, CEO, iTradeNetwork.
About iTradeNetwork:
iTradeNetwork, is a privately held company that provides collaborative workflow solutions (Procurement, Logistics, Promotion, Demand Forecast, VMI, Financial Services and Content) for the food industry and low cost integration to customers legacy systems. iTradeNetwork's e-business solutions are being utilized by 11 of the top 15 U.S. Retailers and many of the leading Foodservice companies with over 2,300 customers.
About American Foods Group
American Foods Group is a food company headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Company employees over 1800 people in Wisconsin, Ohio, South Dakota and Iowa with sales exceeding $800M in 2003. American Foods is engaged in the harvest and fabrication of cattle into boxed beef, ground beef and the sales and marketing of value added beef and processed pork products. Domestic products are sold and marketed under the following labels: AMERICAN FOODS GROUP, DAKOTA SUPREME, BLACK ANGUS RESERVE Beef, AMERICAN FOODS SPECIALTIES, AMERICAN HEARTLAND CERTIFIED ANGUS BEEF, and GREEN BAY DRESSED BEEF. The Company also owns and operates American Service Lines, Inc. a refrigerated carrier located in Green Bay, Wisconsin specializing in truckload and LTL freight. For more information about American Food Group visit: www.american-foods.com
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