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2. Friendly's closes 6 restaurants, including Springfield and another Massachusetts location
  
  Explore masslive.com Dec 4 2018
  
  ... George Michel, who served as CEO of Boston Market Corp. for eight years, was made interim CEO at Friendly's. Friendly's sold its retail ice cream and manufacturing business to Dallas, Texas-based Dean Foods Co. in 2016 ...
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3. Friendly's CEO John Maguire steps down, praises company for recent progress
  
  Explore masslive.com Sep 12 2018
  
  ...el, who served as CEO of Boston Market Corp. for eight years, will be interim CEO at Friendly's. WILBRAHAM -- Friendly's CEO John Maguire, a former Panera Bread executive who took the helm at Friendly's just months after...
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4. City working with property owner to bring business to Westfield Shops, continues marketing campaign
  
  Explore masslive.com Sep 11 2018 Business Development , Retail
  
  ...ops, which has several vacant spaces, including two former Bon-Ton locations and space previously occupied by Friendly's and Dress Barn. One space that has been vacant since Little Caesar's Pizza left in the winter has b...
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  Mentions: Westfield Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce Westfield Bank
5. Craft breweries popping up across Greater Springfield
  
  Explore masslive.com Jun 15 2018 Entrepreneurship
  
  ...gestgenerational demographic cohort. WILBRAHAM -- When you think of Wilbraham, Massachusetts -- birthplace of Friendly's Ice Cream and where Timothy Merrick was immortalized in song after dying from a rattlesnake bite up...
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6. New Mass. Pike exit: Westfield Chamber asks businesses to weigh in
  
  Explore masslive.com May 3 2018 Transportation
  
  ...amber of Commerce Executive Director Kate Phelon said. Cars northbound on Elm Street sometimes back up at the Friendly's Way jug handle leading to the exit. But would today's Westfield business community like to see fewe...
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  Mentions: Westfield Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce Massachusetts Department of Transportation
7. New Tower Square owners want more retail for downtown Springfield; seek brand outlets like Gap, Old Navy
  
  Explore masslive.com Apr 12 2018 Business Development , Retail
  
  ...time, the Tower Square Mall was home to stores like A.O. White, Belmont Records and U.S. Factory Outlet and a Friendly's and was connected by pedestrian bridges to Springfield's stalwart department stores, Forbes & Walla...
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8. Southworth sells Agawam plant for $1.9M; Turners Falls paper mill sold for $4M
  
  Explore masslive.com Jan 11 2018 Manufacturing
  
  ...But when Southworth shut operations in August, much of the facility was being used to store empty cartons for Friendly's manufacturing operations in Wilbraham. On Wednesday there were trailers stored in part of the parki...
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9. Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and state Rep. Angelo Puppolo tour Friendly's Ice Cream plant in...
  
  Explore masslive.com Sep 19 2017 Manufacturing
  
  ...mpany. At the time, Dean Foods pledged to continue to produce Friendly's Ice Cream at the plant in Wilbraham. Friendly's Ice Cream is sold in more than 8,000 retail locations across the United States, and has seen 105 pe...
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10. Southworth Paper closing leaves gap for Turners Falls, Agawam
  
  Explore masslive.com Aug 30 2017 Paper Manufacturing
  
  ...ners stored there for the Friendly's plant in Wilbraham. Workers said they were loading product on trucks for Friendly's and had been promised more work Thursday. They hoped they would be called back to continue the ware...
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11. Friendly's to close Chicopee distribution center: 50 jobs lost
  
  Explore masslive.com Dec 2 2016
  
  ... bought the Wilbraham ice cream factory and wholesale distribution operation in May for $155 million in cash. Friendly's is also working with other employers in the region and pans to host job fairs for the affected Chic...
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12. Friendly's looks to grow, open restaurants, following sale of ice cream plant
  
  Explore masslive.com Sep 5 2016
  
  ...er of transition for Friendly's. In May, Dean Foods, one of the largest milk processors in the county, bought Friendly's ice cream manufacturing and retail distribution business in Wilbraham for $155 million. Before the ...
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  Mentions: Six Flags New England Springfield Chicopee
13. Dean Foods completes purchase of Friendly's ice cream business
  
  Explore masslive.com Jun 20 2016 Manufacturing
  
  ...eneric brands. In a news release, Dean Foods said Friendly's had $166 million in net ice cream sales in 2015. Friendly's sells ice cream, single-serve sundae cups, novelty items, cakes and rolls in more than 8,000 retail...
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14. Friendly's sells retail ice cream and manufacturing, new owner promises to keep Wilbraham factory | masslive.com
  
  Explore masslive.com May 10 2016 Manufacturing
  
  ... Friendly's Ice Cream had $166 million in net sales of ice cream to supermarkets in 2015, Dean Foods said. Together with its franchisees, Friendly's has system-wide sales of over $500 million, Friendly's said. ...
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15. 'State of Entrepreneurship in the Valley' at TechSpring: Pioneer Valley 'the place people want to be' | masslive.com
  
  Explore masslive.com Dec 2 2015 Entrepreneurship
  
  ...for the business startups but for the region. 'I talk about it as business regeneration,' Davis said. 'We had Friendly's and MassMutual and Smith Wesson here for generations. These all started as small businesses. Now w...
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  Mentions: MassMutual Smith & Wesson Corp. Friendly's Ice Cream Corporation
16. Friendly co-founder Curtis Blake has AIC remove his name from campus building
  
  Explore masslive.com Oct 6 2015 Education
  
  ...ff-campus Curtis Blake Day School for 37 students students with language learning disabilities. SPRINGFIELD — Friendly's co-founder and philanthropist Curtis Blake said on Tuesday he has asked American International Coll...
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About Friendly's Ice Cream Corporation

Friendly Ice Cream Corporation is a restaurant company with more than 500 company and franchised restaurants throughout the Northeast. The company also manufactures ice cream, which is distributed through more than 4,000 supermarkets and other retail locations.
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