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ID NEWS: DMA announces two new multi-unit restaurant agreements

By Restaurant Business Staff on Dec. 08, 2003
SCHAUMBERG, IL-Distribution Market Advantage (DMA), a regional broadliner marketing group targeting the multi-unit operator segment, has been awarded two new three-year contracts. All told, the new contracts represent $50 million in annual volume or $150 million over the multi-year agreement.

The new business comprises the restaurant concepts owned by Bravo! Development, Inc. (BDI), including Bravo, Brio, Bon Vie and Lindey's, and the concepts owned by RAM International, LLC, including The RAM, C.B. Potts, Humperdink's, Shenanigan's, Murphy's and Stonehouse.

DMA is owned and operated by 12 leading regional distributors, such as Gordon Food Service, Grand Rapids, MI, Food Services of America, Seattle, Ben E. Keith Foods, Fort Worth, Texas, and Shamrock Foods, Phoenix. Aggregate annual volume generated by the organization's 50 warehouses exceeds $12 billion.

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