Peter MacFarland named President - Garland USA

As part of the evolution of its organization and its focus on driving innovation, Garland has appointed Peter MacFarland as President - Garland U.S.A.. Peter has extensive experience with over 20 years in the foodservice industry including executive positions as President - MagiKitch'n, Group V.P. of Sales and Marketing at Garland and most recently, Peter served as President of Merco where he led a successful repositioning of that business.

Effective September 29th, 2008, The Garland Group will evolve from a functional organization structure to operate as two distinct units, Garland U.S.A. and Garland Canada.

Garland U.S.A., based in Freeland, Pennsylvania, will seek to strengthen relationships with U.S. customers with specific emphasis on enhanced customer support. The manufacturing product focus will be mainly on clamshell grill and oven product innovations.

Garland Canada, based in Mississauga, Ontario, will continue to be the Canadian distributor for most Enodis products and, in addition, will focus on the development of Garland brands in International markets. The manufacturing focus will be on range and specialty product innovations.

Garland Group President, Jacques Seguin commented “We are pleased to welcome Peter back to Garland. Peter’s extensive experience both in the industry and at Garland, further strengthens our team and brings more focus to the U.S. market.  We have made significant progress on our innovation strategy this year with our restaurant range and high efficiency broiler winning Kitchen Innovation Awards from the National Restaurant Association. We are implementing this new structure to further speed innovation by improving our specific market, customer and product focus while optimizing teamwork within each of our two facilities”.

About Garland
Garland, an Enodis company, is one of the leading manufacturers and marketers of commercial ranges, ovens, clamshell griddles and counter equipment under the Garland and U.S. Range brands for the global foodservice industry.  For more than a century, Garland has delivered superior-quality premium equipment with stringent quality standards, design innovation and world class service to kitchens around the world.

About Enodis
Enodis plc (www.enodis.com) is a worldwide company focused on the design, manufacture and supply of food and beverage equipment. Through its two operating groups, Global Food Service Equipment and Food Retail Equipment, it has manufacturing facilities in North America, the UK, Western Europe and Asia and a large portfolio of premium brands including Cleveland, Convotherm®, Delfield®, Fabristeel, Frymaster®, Garland®, Icematic®, Ice-O-Matic®, Jackson, Kysor//Warren®, Kysor Panel Systems®, Lincoln, Merrychef®, Scotsman® and Scotsman® Beverage Systems.