SPONSORS
Platinum Sponsor
Middleby Corporation
Of all things a company can supply none is more important than trust. This is evident at the Middleby Corporation by our strong relationship with customers, suppliers, shareholders, and employees. Trust is why we’re the world leader in commercial cooking equipment. We perpetually “disrupt” our industry with advanced cooking innovations that bring speed, energy saving and green benefits to commercial kitchens.
Gold Sponsors
Bringg
Bringg is the leading delivery management solution, providing restaurant chains and delivery services with the most efficient way to manage their complex operations. Some of the world’s best-known brands in more than 50 countries are using our powerful SaaS platform to streamline their operations for peak efficiency and create perfect delivery experiences for their customers.
Taylor Company
As a foodservice equipment leader, Taylor Company offers frozen drink machines, soft serve ice cream machines, and commercial grills. Taylor Company has the foodservice equipment that you need to excel. Taylor offers the highest level of quality products and extraordinary customer service. Since 1926, Taylor equipment offers best-in-class manufacturing, with a worldwide factory authorized distributor network.
Associate Sponsors
Fishman Public Relations
Fishman Public Relations executes strategic PR and content marketing programs that create brand awareness and drive inbound leads for franchise sales. For more than 25 years, Fishman PR has generated high-level print, broadcast and online earned media coverage that puts brands on the map, closing countless franchise deals.
Mobile App Sponsor
Twilio
Twilio’s mission is to fuel the future of communications. Developers and businesses use Twilio to make communications relevant and contextual by embedding messaging, voice, and video capabilities directly into their applications. Used by over 2 million developers globally, Twilio was founded in 2008, has over 1k employees and offices in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Wifi Sponsor
Punchh
Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Punchh is the leading fully-integrated, transformative marketing solution for restaurants. Punchh’s Restaurant Marketing Cloud helps restaurants engage customers across any channel or interaction, predict consumer behavior, and increase sales by executing tailored marketing campaigns. Punchh powers 100+ leading restaurant brands at 27,000 locations globally, 9 million+ consumers, and one million+ transactions daily.
Additional Sponsors
Louisville Forward
Louisville Forward is an integrated approach to economic and community development. Created in 2014, Louisville Forward combines business attraction, expansion and retention activities, and talent and workforce attraction, with all of the city’s real estate development, land use and planning and design functions to present a unified solution for job growth and quality of place.
Partners
Avalanche Enterprise
Avalanche is a leading voice in how the landscape of marketing is changing for businesses across the working. With over 70 clients in 8 different countries, Avalanche has a bird’s eye view on the constant changes and challenges businesses have to overcome when it comes to generating clear financial and brand return on investment from their marketing.
Euromonitor International
Euromonitor International is the world’s leading independent provider of global business intelligence and strategic market research. Euromonitor International’s global market research database, Passport, provides statistics, analysis, reports, surveys and breaking news on industries, countries and consumers worldwide. Passport connects market research to your company goals and annual planning, analysing market content, competitor insight and future trends impacting businesses globally.
Fast Casual
Fast Casual is the global online leader for news, analysis, blogs and research in the worldwide fast casual restaurant industry.
Food Truck Operator
Food Truck Operator was launched in 2017 to meet the needs of the thriving food truck industry. The new digital property covers industry trends and news, profiles business owners, and explores the technologies and tools available to help operators grow their businesses.
The Franchising Centre
The Franchising Centre is Europe’s leading franchise development, executive recruitment and training firm with twenty UK practitioners and associates in more than forty countries. TFC’s aim is to consistently enable its clients to build successful and increasingly valuable franchised networks, domestically and internationally.
Global Franchise
Global Franchise is the magazine for Franchisors and Master Franchisees. While other franchise magazines are directed towards the small investor, Global Franchise is focused on the concerns of those looking buy a master franchiseeship. No other publication devotes itself solely to master and international franchising. Published six times a year, Global Franchise delivers previews of franchise events.
ICX Association
The Interactive Customer Experience Association’s mission is to connect B2C brands to technology that elevates the customer experience.
Pizza Marketplace
Pizza Marketplace is the premier online destination for C-level pizza executive leadership seeking cutting-edge intelligence for their multi-unit restaurant concepts.
QSRweb
QSRweb delivers fast-breaking news, features and analysis on the quick-service restaurant industry.
World Franchise Associates
World Franchise Associates is the premier global franchise services company assisting franchisors enter new international markets. We promote our clients in the Middle East, Europe, US, Latin America, ASEAN Region. World Franchise Associates professionally advising franchise investors in the acquisition of leading brands worldwide. Publishers of the World Franchise Review.
