McLane is a $28 billion supply chain services company, providing grocery and foodservice supply chain solutions for thousands of convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores and military locations, as well as thousands of chain restaurants throughout the United States. McLane is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and is its single largest non-insurance business.^[1]

Founded in 1894 in Cameron, Texas, McLane Company has grown from a local merchant to an international distribution and logistics leader. The company is headquartered in Temple, Texas, and operates 38 grocery and foodservice distribution centers across the country.

Corporate Operations[link]

McLane Company operates 20 grocery distribution centers and 18 foodservice distribution centers across the country. From these locations the company regularly services every state and county in the United States.

The President & CEO of McLane Company is W. Grady Rosier. He has held that position since 1995 and is a 20-year veteran of the company.

History[link]

The history of McLane Company dates to 1894, when Robert McLane opened a small retail grocery store in downtown Cameron, Texas. In 1903, he expanded into wholesale trade, supplying grocery stores in neighboring towns via rail and horse-drawn wagons. During the 1920s through the 1940s, with the advent of the automobile and a robust highway system, his business grew rapidly to encompass much of the Central Texas region.

In 1966, McLane Company moved its operations to Temple, Texas, and began tailoring its warehouse operations and distribution methods to accommodate the unique needs of a nascent retail segment – convenience stores, which were popping up on many street corners and at many gasoline stations.

McLane Company pursued a plan of rapid expansion beyond Texas beginning in 1976 under the leadership of Drayton McLane, Jr., the third generation of family leadership. By 1990, the company had established a presence that was fully nationwide in scope.

In December 1990, Drayton McLane sold McLane Company to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. for 10.4 million shares of Wal-Mart stock and an undisclosed amount of cash.^[2]

McLane Company entered the foodservice business in December 2000, when it acquired certain assets from AmeriServe Food Distribution to create McLane Foodservice.^[3]

In May 2003, Berkshire Hathaway acquired McLane Company from Wal-Mart for $1.45 billion.^[4]

In 2008 McLane opened its 20th grocery distribution center in Jessup, Pennsylvania and 18th foodservice distribution center in Manassas, Virginia.^[5]

Customers[link]

Some prominent retail chains that receive one or more product categories from McLane are Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Walgreens, Circle K, WaWa, 7-Eleven, ExxonMobil,^[6] Target Stores,^[7] and Love's.

Among the national restaurant chains supplied by McLane Foodservice are the Yum! Brands family of concepts: Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers, and A&W Restaurants.^[8]

Specialty divisions and companies[link]

McLane Company owns the following specialty divisions and subsidiary companies:

• McLane Foodservice, Inc. is a leading supplier of food and foodservice items to restaurants throughout the US, serving more than 20,000 customers.
• Salado Sales develops and markets private label products to McLane’s convenience store customers. Its lines include various health and beauty care items, film and flash products, light bulbs, motor oil and work gloves.
• Professional Datasolutions, Inc. is a leading provider of software and services to the convenience and petroleum industries.
• C.D. Hartnett, Inc. is a full-line grocery wholesaler based in Weatherford, Texas. C.D. Hartnett supplies food service accounts, convenience stores, and independent grocers in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. McLane Company acquired C.D. Hartnett in 2004.^[9]
• McCarty-Hull, Inc. is a full-line grocery wholesaler based in Amarillo, Texas. McLane acquired McCarty-Hull in 2006.^[10]
• Empire Distributers is a wholesale alcoholic beverage distributor in the Southeast US. In 2010, McLane Company purchased Empire.

References[link]

See also[link]

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Katie Finneran (born January 22, 1971)^[1] is an American actress of film, stage, and television noted for her Tony Award-winning performances in the Broadway play Noises Off in 2002, and the musical Promises, Promises in 2010.^[2]

Personal life[link]

She was raised in Miami, Florida where she attended the acclaimed New World School of the Arts for high school. Finneran is of Irish descent and was raised Roman Catholic.^[3] For college, Finneran attended Carnegie Mellon University^{[citation needed]} in Pittsburgh for one year before moving to New York City at age 19 to study acting with Uta Hagen.^{[citation needed]} Outside of acting, Finneran has had many "day jobs" to augment her income, including a ringside girl at a boxing ring, waitress, and perfume spray girl at Bloomingdale's.^{[citation needed]} In a ceremony presided over by actor and Buddhist priest in training Peter Coyote,^[4] Finneran married actor Daren Goldstein on August 22nd 2010,^[5] and on February 3, 2011, gave birth to a son, Ty Michael Goldstein.^[6]

Film[link]

Finneran's biggest film role was a leading role in the remake of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Her film credits include You've Got Mail, Chicken Little, Liberty Heights, Bewitched, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, and Death to Smoochy.

Television[link]

Finneran is perhaps best known for her role of Sharon Tyler on the critically acclaimed, short-lived Fox television series Wonderfalls. She was also featured as a part of the cast on the Fox show The Inside, in the short-lived CBS sitcom Bram and Alice, and in many guest roles in shows like Frasier, Sex and the City and Oz. In 2007 Finneran was featured in the new series Drive. She played the sister of the main character, Alex Tully (Nathan Fillion).

In the DVD for the full series of Wonderfalls, Finneran said that when asked if she felt nervous about playing lesbian immigration attorney Sharon Tyler on Wonderfalls she replied, "I'd rather have people think that I'm a lesbian than a lawyer."

In 2012, she co-starred in the Fox sitcom, I Hate My Teenage Daughter.^[7]

Theatre[link]

Finneran has an extensive roster of theater roles. She has often been cast as a seductress in comedic and dramatic roles, including a pin-up girl in Neil Simon's Proposals, Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of Cabaret, and call girl Cora in The Iceman Cometh, opposite Kevin Spacey. She also has appeared in My Favorite Year with Tim Curry and John Guare's Bosoms and Neglect and Smell of the Kill, with Kristen Johnson.

She won the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2002 for her role as Brooke Ashton in the revival of Noises Off.^[8]

In the summer of 2006, Finneran appeared in the New York stage production Pig Farm.^[9]

She appeared in the first Broadway revival of the musical Promises, Promises, opposite Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes. The show opened March 27, 2010 and Finneran left the show on October 10, 2010 due to her pregnancy.^[10] She won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.^[11]

Finneran will play the role of Miss Hannigan in the upcoming Broadway revival of the musical Annie.^[12]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Katie Finneran at the Internet Movie Database
• "Promises, Promises: Katie Finneran leaves 10 Oct", New York Theatre Guide, August 24, 2010

Aaron Lazar is an American stage, film and television actor.

Early life and education[link]

Lazar was born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey to a Jewish family.^[2][3] He graduated from Cherry Hill High School West in 1994.^[1] Lazar attended Duke University where he earned a BA in music in 1998,^[4] while completing the prerequisite classes for medical school and taking the MCAT. He then studied at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where he earned an MFA in musical theater in 2000.^[5]

Career[link]

After landing the role of understudy to the lead in the Broadway National Tour of The Scarlet Pimpernel only months after moving to New York City, Lazar abandoned his aspirations of being a medical doctor. He received a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as Enjolras in Les Misérables.^[6]

Work[link]

Broadway[link]

• "Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm" in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music (2009-2010 Broadway Revival)
• "Ben Joplin" in Impressionism on Broadway (2009) with Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, and Marsha Mason
• "Charles Darnay" in A Tale of Two Cities (Broadway 2008)
• "Enjolras" in Les Misérables (Broadway Revival 2006)
• "Fabrizio Nacarelli" in The Light in the Piazza (broadcast live from Lincoln Center on PBS)

Film[link]

• Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar (2011)
• The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)^[7]
• One Man's Castle (2003)^[7]

Television[link]

• White Collar, episode "Book of Hours" (2009)^[7]
• All My Children, two episodes (2009)^[7]
• New Amsterdam, episode "Bad Amanda" (2008)^[7]
• Ugly Betty, episode "Honor" (2008)^[7]
• Guiding Light^{[citation needed]}
• Onion News Network as O'Brady Shaw, recurring (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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Jill Paice is an American Broadway and theatre actress. Paice attended Beavercreek High School in Beavercreek, Ohio, graduating in 1998. She then attended Baldwin-Wallace College, graduating with a bachelor of music in 2002. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of Laura Fairlie in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Woman in White.

Musical theatre[link]

In 2001, Paice earned her Equity card by appearing in a production of Gypsy at Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. Also in this time period, she starred as Maria in West Side Story and as Mabel in Pirates of Penzance at Baldwin-Wallace. She also starred as Violet, the title character of a new musical. After college, Paice's career began with the national tour of Les Misérables. She then went on to create the role of Sophie in Mamma Mia in Las Vegas in 2003.

In 2004, she was persuaded by her agent to audition for Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical The Woman in White, in which he was required to hire two "unknown American actors" in order to sustain future Actors Equity Union rules in America (for the transfer to include the British actors Michael Crawford and star Maria Friedman). She created the role of Laura Fairle for the West End world premiere at the Palace Theatre and then reprised her role in the Broadway production in 2005 at the Marriott Marquis Theater. She received many good notices, especially since she had not even been on Broadway when she originated the role in the West End. However, the show flopped on Broadway, and closed, with less than 100 performances (out of about 150) having the complete original cast.

In 2006 she originated the role of Nikki Harris in Curtains in Los Angeles and, in 2007, on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, opposite David Hyde Pierce, in which she was the object of his character's affection. Her final performance with the Broadway company was on February 2, 2008.

Immediately following her run in Curtains, she returned to London's West End to originate the role of Scarlett in Trevor Nunn's musical adaption of Gone With The Wind. Nunn had been working on the project while Paice was still working on Woman in White, in which she was able to do several readings and workshops for it. The show, which was most noted for running over three hours long, starred Paice and Darius Danesh, but flopped. The show closed on June 14, 2008, after opening just two months before.

In September–October 2008, she appeared as Elizabeth Lucas in Ace at the Signature Theater in Arlington, Virginia.^[1] Paice appeared as Betty Haynes in White Christmas in Detroit from November through December 23, 2008.

Starting June 2, 2009, Paice began appearing in her first Broadway play, The 39 Steps, at the Helen Hayes Theatre. She portrays several roles in the show.

She starred as Florence in Chess the Musical at Signature Theater in Arlington, Virginia.^[2]

Most Recently, she originated the role of Grazia in Maury Yeston's Death Takes A Holiday opposite Julien Ovenden and later Kevin Earley (Ovenden left because of a throat infection) as Prince Nikolai Sirki/Death. The production opened June 10, 2011 for a limited run through September 4 at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold & Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre in a production by Roundabout Theatre Company.

Awards[link]

• 2009: Helen Hayes Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Elizabeth in Ace (Nominated)
• 2010: Helen Hayes Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical -Florence in "Chess" (Nominated)

Recordings[link]

• The Woman in White: A New Musical - Original London Cast Recording
• Curtains - Original Broadway Cast Recording
• The Gig - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording
• Andrew Lloyd Webber on Broadway (Released with Jay Records)
• Death Takes A Holiday - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jill Paice Official site