{"id":9632,"date":"2020-10-29T09:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/?p=9632"},"modified":"2020-10-29T09:58:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:58:33","slug":"gna-salutes-long-time-staffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/gna-salutes-long-time-staffers\/","title":{"rendered":"GNA Salutes Long-Time Staffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgilaundry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girbau North America<\/a> recently recognized more than a dozen employees who have accrued 10 to 25 years of service to the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that our employees continue to find our company a favorable career choice lends itself to the idea that our work environment, customer base and philosophies are leading edge,\u201d said GNA President Mike Floyd. \u201cWe are grateful to them for their contributions over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five team members celebrated their 25th year with company, including Floyd, Director of Customer Experience Laurie Kilgore, Manager of Inventory Control and Operations Jay Leitz, Director of HR and Strategic Business Kelly Zabel, and Commercial Technical Service Trainer Gary Clark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese folks helped grow GNA shortly after it was founded in 1995,\u201d Floyd noted. \u201cTogether, Laurie, Jay, Kelly, Gary and myself have witnessed the exponential growth of the company, the development of many, many new products, and the establishment of multiple brands. They continue to excel in performance, attitude and teamwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other GNA staff who celebrated service milestones include Sales Manager-Eastern U.S. Ed Ziegler, Director of Operations Andy Davis, and Office Operations Coordinator Julie Zeitlow, with 20 years; Director of Marketing Tari Albright, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgilaundry.com\/girbau-industrial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girbau Industrial<\/a> National Sales Manager Seth Willer, and Director of Finance Administration Christine Skupas, with 15 years; and Vice President of <a href=\"http:\/\/cg-west.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continental Girbau West<\/a> Tod Sorensen and Sales Manager-Central U.S. Wes Kraemer, with 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>GNA, based in Oshkosh, Wis., serves the vended, on-premises, commercial, multi-housing and industrial laundry sectors throughout North America. It is the largest of 17 subsidiaries within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girbau.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girbau Group<\/a>, headquartered in Vic, Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girbau North America recently recognized more than a dozen employees who have accrued 10 to 25 years of service to the company. \u201cThe fact that our employees continue to find our company a favorable career choice lends itself to the idea that our work environment, customer base and philosophies are leading edge,\u201d said GNA President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9633,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632\/revisions\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}