AMCON Appoints New Chief Executive Officer
04 Octobre 2006 - 1:30PM
Business Wire
AMCON Distributing Company (�AMCON�) (AMEX:DIT), an Omaha, Nebraska
based consumer products company is pleased to announce that it has
named Christopher Atayan Chief Executive Officer. William F.
Wright, AMCON�s founder, will continue in his role as Chairman of
the Board. As previously reported, AMCON has internally
reconfigured its internal management structure in a holding and
operating company structure. The primary mission of the holding
company is to focus on AMCON�s broader financial issues, strategic
planning and external corporate matters. This enables AMCON�s
senior operating executives to focus on the competitive issues in
their respective industries. �After 30 years with AMCON, and
working with Chris on various projects for over 20 years, I have
decided that now was the right time to pass the baton to Chris, the
appropriate leader� said William F. Wright. �We have spent a
considerable amount of energy at AMCON developing and implementing
our new management structure. Over the course of the last seven
months, we have seen that effort beginning to bear fruit. As the
largest common shareholder in AMCON, I am very comfortable that the
business will be vested in Chris� able hands. Chris has been
closely involved with our organization since the late 1980s
initially as our Investment Banker and more recently as an Officer
and Director. He and I have will continue to work collaboratively
in the future on the major issues and opportunities we face as a
company.� �One of the things that first drew me to AMCON was the
original competitive strategy, focusing on superior service, that
Bill Wright had envisioned for the company, said Christopher
Atayan. �We intend to continue this heritage of quality; it is an
important component of our objective of realizing value for our
shareholders. I have great respect for Kathy Evans and Eric
Hinkefent, our two senior operating executives; they have proven
their abilities for many years in a wide variety of economies and
competitive conditions. Our business plan in the short and medium
term is to continue to reduce debt and build our balance sheet
strength while refocusing on generating earnings growth in our core
businesses. In the longer term, we will opportunistically resume
AMCON�s growth trajectory internally from the additions of new
retail stores and wholesale branches and externally from
acquisitions. We believe our value added corporate strategy has
important human resource benefits as well. AMCON�s goal is to
attract and retain the highest caliber executives in the industries
in which we compete. Moreover, we want to be recognized as an
organization where young people with talent have a bright future.�
AMCON is a leading wholesale distributor of consumer products,
including beverages, candy, tobacco, groceries, food service,
frozen and chilled foods, and health and beauty care products with
distribution centers in Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota
and South Dakota. Chamberlin's Natural Foods, Inc. and Health Food
Associates, Inc., both wholly-owned subsidiaries of The Healthy
Edge, Inc., operate health and natural product retail stores in
central Florida (6), Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma (4).
The retail stores operate under the names Chamberlin's Market &
Cafe and Akins Natural Foods Market. Hawaiian Natural Water
Company, Inc. produces and sells natural spring water under the
Hawaiian Springs label in Hawaii and other foreign markets and
purified bottled water on the Island of Oahu in Hawaii. The natural
spring water is bottled at the source on the Big Island of Hawaii.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are
subject to risks and uncertainties and which reflect management's
current beliefs and estimates of future economic circumstances,
industry conditions, Company performance and financial results. A
number of factors could affect the future results of the Company
and could cause those results to differ materially from those
expressed in the Company's forward-looking statements including,
without limitation, availability of sufficient cash resources to
conduct its business and meet its capital expenditures needs.
Moreover, past financial performance should not be considered a
reliable indicator of future performance. Accordingly, the Company
claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking
statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995 with respect to all such forward-looking statements.
Visit AMCON Distributing Company's web site at: www.amcon.com AMCON
Distributing Company ("AMCON") (AMEX:DIT), an Omaha, Nebraska based
consumer products company is pleased to announce that it has named
Christopher Atayan Chief Executive Officer. William F. Wright,
AMCON's founder, will continue in his role as Chairman of the
Board. As previously reported, AMCON has internally reconfigured
its internal management structure in a holding and operating
company structure. The primary mission of the holding company is to
focus on AMCON's broader financial issues, strategic planning and
external corporate matters. This enables AMCON's senior operating
executives to focus on the competitive issues in their respective
industries. "After 30 years with AMCON, and working with Chris on
various projects for over 20 years, I have decided that now was the
right time to pass the baton to Chris, the appropriate leader" said
William F. Wright. "We have spent a considerable amount of energy
at AMCON developing and implementing our new management structure.
Over the course of the last seven months, we have seen that effort
beginning to bear fruit. As the largest common shareholder in
AMCON, I am very comfortable that the business will be vested in
Chris' able hands. Chris has been closely involved with our
organization since the late 1980s initially as our Investment
Banker and more recently as an Officer and Director. He and I have
will continue to work collaboratively in the future on the major
issues and opportunities we face as a company." "One of the things
that first drew me to AMCON was the original competitive strategy,
focusing on superior service, that Bill Wright had envisioned for
the company, said Christopher Atayan. "We intend to continue this
heritage of quality; it is an important component of our objective
of realizing value for our shareholders. I have great respect for
Kathy Evans and Eric Hinkefent, our two senior operating
executives; they have proven their abilities for many years in a
wide variety of economies and competitive conditions. Our business
plan in the short and medium term is to continue to reduce debt and
build our balance sheet strength while refocusing on generating
earnings growth in our core businesses. In the longer term, we will
opportunistically resume AMCON's growth trajectory internally from
the additions of new retail stores and wholesale branches and
externally from acquisitions. We believe our value added corporate
strategy has important human resource benefits as well. AMCON's
goal is to attract and retain the highest caliber executives in the
industries in which we compete. Moreover, we want to be recognized
as an organization where young people with talent have a bright
future." AMCON is a leading wholesale distributor of consumer
products, including beverages, candy, tobacco, groceries, food
service, frozen and chilled foods, and health and beauty care
products with distribution centers in Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska,
North Dakota and South Dakota. Chamberlin's Natural Foods, Inc. and
Health Food Associates, Inc., both wholly-owned subsidiaries of The
Healthy Edge, Inc., operate health and natural product retail
stores in central Florida (6), Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and
Oklahoma (4). The retail stores operate under the names
Chamberlin's Market & Cafe and Akins Natural Foods Market.
Hawaiian Natural Water Company, Inc. produces and sells natural
spring water under the Hawaiian Springs label in Hawaii and other
foreign markets and purified bottled water on the Island of Oahu in
Hawaii. The natural spring water is bottled at the source on the
Big Island of Hawaii. This news release contains forward-looking
statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties and which
reflect management's current beliefs and estimates of future
economic circumstances, industry conditions, Company performance
and financial results. A number of factors could affect the future
results of the Company and could cause those results to differ
materially from those expressed in the Company's forward-looking
statements including, without limitation, availability of
sufficient cash resources to conduct its business and meet its
capital expenditures needs. Moreover, past financial performance
should not be considered a reliable indicator of future
performance. Accordingly, the Company claims the protection of the
safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to all such
forward-looking statements. Visit AMCON Distributing Company's web
site at: www.amcon.com
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