Lakeside Receives “Cornerstone Partner”Award
from Gordon Food Service

Manitowoc, WI - November 10, 2008

Lakeside Foods was presented the Cornerstone Partner Award at Gordon Food Service’s (GFS) annual VIP awards event in Grand Rapids, MI.  This is the very highest award GFS bestows to their vendors.  GFS cited the large amount of business they do with Lakeside, how well Lakeside has worked with them throughout the year, customer service, on-time deliveries, fill rates and product quality as factors they considered when deciding to name Lakeside as recipient of this award.

“Speaking for our entire Lakeside organization and all of our fine people who comprise it, we are very honored to have received this distinction from one of the leaders in the food service industry,” said Bob Popple, Vice President of Frozen Food Sales.  “We appreciate GFS’s business and look forward to working together with them in the years ahead.”

GFS is the 4th largest food service distributor in the USA.  They have sales of over $6 billion and employ over 2,500 vendors.