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Macdonald Aviemore unveils senior leadership changes

Hotel Owner

Managing director Kenny McMillan recently returned to Aviemore, where he first trained as a sous chef between 2004 and 2007. Marketing director Gaelle Delagrave is an experienced marketer with over 20 years’ experience in digital media, specialising in customer growth strategies and key account management for leading brands globally.

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Choice’s ESG report highlights sustainability initiatives

Hotel Business

Choice is “well-positioned” to address the growing consumer demand for EV charging, with guests who drove to hotels accounting for 82% of all Choice room nights in 2022. In connection with that program, Choice has awarded and financially supported more than 370 franchise agreements with diverse participants since 2004.

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The Multilevel Truth Behind Small Town America’s Latest Tea Obsession

EATER

The company’s first iteration of “nutrition clubs” — called that in Herbalife parlance because they’re not exactly intended to function as retail shops — started to pop up in the mid-aughts , after the first was founded in Mexico in 2004. Her account is part of a bigger “anti-MLM” movement online.

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The secret sauce to the success of Theobroma – Interview with Kainaz Messman 

The Restaurant Times

In October 2004, Theobroma started as a small neighborhood cafe on Colaba Causeway, Mumbai. . Being a business owner brings with it a lot of responsibilities and accountability. You need to learn how to be a good leader to the people you work with and treat and train them.

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

EATER

The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture opened in 2004 on 80 acres of rolling hills and verdant forest that were once part of the extensive Rockefeller family holdings in the hamlet of Pocantico Hills, New York. It’s a test bed for new crops, agriculture research, and ecological farming practices.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

EATER

This story contains a detailed account of a sexual assault. The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a nonprofit regenerative farm and educational center, opened in 2004 on the site of a former dairy farm. He came to recognize that his own training was no excuse for treating his employees that way.”

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

EATER

For 15 years , Stone Barns had been as much an education center as a farm, devoted to turning schoolkids into engaged “ food citizens ” and training young farmers. that emphasized the interconnectedness of food, the environment, nutrition, and culture, and offered free, annual training conferences for educators willing to implement it.