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Who Saved Market Basket at North Shore Business Forum's Meeting Friday, 12/18/15 Acapulcos, Cummings Center Beverly
Featured Speaker: Grant Welker, Author of "We Are Market Basket" describes how Employees, Customers and Vendors Saved Market Basket.
The North Shore Business Forum meets on Friday, December 4 at Acapulcos, 900 Cummings Center, Beverly, MA. Registration begins at 7:15 AM, the meeting runs from 7:30 to 8:30. Admission is $10 at the door, and includes a buffet breakfast. Visitwww.nsbforum.org for more information. The featured speaker is Grant Welker, journalist at the Lowell Sun and co-author of the book We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business. Welker will expand on the fight by employees, customers and vendors to save the Market Basket supermarket chain, which became an inspiring national story that also offers business lessons, showing that a company can do things differently and still be successful.
About the Speaker: Grant Welker covers the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, for the Lowell Sun, where he has worked since 2012. He was previously a reporter at the Herald News in Fall River, MA, and has worked in journalism for nearly 10 years. His coverage of the Market Basket story included about 80 news articles for the Sun, earning him two New England Newspaper & Press Association business reporting awards. He has also been recognized by the New England Newspaper & Press Association for prior reporting on education, social issues, crime, transportation and the environment. Grant has a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Connecticut and lives in Boston with his wife, Angela. To contact Grant, email: gwelker@lowellsun.com .
The North Shore Business Forum, Inc. (NSBF) is a group of small business owners from Boston’s North Shore who meet on the first and third Friday of each month for informal lectures given by business owners on a wide variety of topics. Members give a 30-second introduction of their business at each meeting. All business owners are welcome: future, past, profitable, experienced or beginning. Meetings are from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (registration starts at 7:15) at Acapulcos, 900 Cummings Center, Beverly, MA. The $10.00 admission fee includes a breakfast buffet. No pre-registration necessary.
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Contact: Brett Kirkpatrick, NSBF President, 978-239-6335, Email:events@nsbforum.org.
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The North Shore Business Forum is re-instituting the concept of having members share their expertise with other members on an informal basis, in brief, no-cost sessions after its Friday morning networking meetings.
If you are an NSBF member with an interest in offering your own “Meeting After the Meeting” session in the future, please see NSBF President Brett Kirkpatrick at one of our meetings, or email him at events@nsbforum.org .
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