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IFDA Launches Foundation for Education and Research;New Body to Provide Strategic and Tactical Info

By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 03, 2005
FALLS CHURCH, VA - The International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA) here launched a subsidiary organization whose mission is to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the foodservice supply chain and ensure the continued strength of foodservice distributors and their trading partners.

Dubbed the IFDA Foundation for Education and Research, which has been meeting since last fall, it is governed by five distributor and four supplier-executives.

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