Shawn Stoffer was hired to serve as regional sales manager, East for Lincoln Foodservice Products, a Welbilt company. Stoffer succeeds Simon Maple, who will transition to the Welbilt corporate culinary team, effective December 1, 2025.

Anna Pata was named president of Carpigiani North America, a Welbilt company.

Ryan Kime was promoted to national sales manager for Welbilt brands Champion Industries and Bi-Line Systems, effective September 1, 2025.

Daniel Short was appointed director of consultant services for Welbilt’s Beverage-Air, Victory Refrigeration, Champion Industries, and Bi-Line Systems brands, all of which are Welbilt companies. In addition, Logan Noll will be promoted to vice president of sales for Beverage-Air and Victory Refrigeration, effective September 1, 2025.

Tom Hotard will become chief engineering officer for both Ali Group and Welbilt on a global basis, effective September 1, 2025.

Ali Group North America and Welbilt announced a series of leadership changes. Notably, Rob August will become chief commercial officer for Ali Group and Welbilt globally, and Scott Cheravaty now serves as a Welbilt group president. Both Ali Group North America and Welbilt are Ali Group companies.

ACP, Inc., a Welbilt company, hired Chef Chris Bugher to serve as manager-Eastern regional sales, effective May 7, 2025.

Zoë Triantis was appointed chain solutions account manager for Carpigiani North America, a Welbilt Company.

Korey Brownlee was promoted to general manager of Beverage-Air and Victory Refrigeration, both Welbilt companies.

Champion Industries and Bi-Line Systems, which are Welbilt companies, unveiled a series of organizational changes including two new vice presidents and the retirement of longtime employee, Allen Hasken.

Chris Salatino was appointed president of Belshaw, a Welbilt company.

Tim Wilczak was promoted to vice president of sales, marketing and product management at Delfield, which is a Welbilt company. He most recently served as Delfield’s director of sales and product management.

Multiline foodservice equipment manufacturer Welbilt has updated the leadership of its refrigeration brands. Will Means, will step down as president of Beverage-Air and Victory.  In response to this leadership change, Clint Reed, who is president of Delfield and Kolpak, will assume the role of interim president for both Beverage-Air and Victory.

In a move to further integrate the companies’ products and services, Ali Group North America and Welbilt have merged and will now go to market in North America under the Welbilt name. In support of the merger the company made a series of organizational changes.

Welbilt made a trio of updates to its sales organization. Jo Heitzman will retire from her role as vice president of global strategic accounts for Welbilt, effective October 2, 2023.

Matt Kampert was named president of Lincoln Foodservice, a Welbilt brand, effective September 1, 2023. The company also announced plans to transition Lincoln’s manufacturing plant into its Shrevepark facility in the Shreveport, La., area.

Welbilt made updates to its sales and marketing team at its Frymaster, Kolpak and Merrychef lines.

Marcy Mathews was introduced as the vice president of sales, marketing and product management for Delfield, a division of Welbilt.

Multiline foodservice equipment manufacturer Welbilt made a series of changes to its leadership team both at the corporate level and across several of its lines.

More than a year after coming to terms on a deal, Ali Group received completed its acquisition of multiline foodservice equipment manufacturer Welbilt.

Ali Group’s deal to acquire Welbilt continues to make progress and will likely require the divestiture of one high-profile brand.

Richard “Rick” Caron, executive vice president and chief innovation officer for Welbilt, passed away following a brief, non-COVID-19 related illness. He was 65 years old.

Welbilt has agreed to Ali Group’s all-cash offer of $24 per share and the two companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement. The deal, with an enterprise value of $4.8 billion, is expected to close in early 2022 and has been approved by the boards of directors for both companies.

Update: 10 a.m., July 14, 2021

Is the saga to determine whether Ali Group or Middleby will eventually own Welbilt about to come to an end? Perhaps.

Update June 1, 2021: Since Ali Group confirmed it made an offer to acquire Welbilt several developments have occurred.

Welbilt will become the distributor of Nuovair blast chillers in the U.S. and Canada. The multiline foodservice equipment manufacturer will also distribute AeroTherm, a portable air purifier, in the U.S.

In a deal that unites two publicly traded foodservice equipment manufacturers, The Middleby Corporation will acquire Welbilt in an all-stock transaction. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2021. The boards of directors for both companies have approved this deal, per a Middleby release.