PFG Names New President, CEO Of Performance Foodservice

Jan. 29, 2015

RICHMOND, Va. — Performance Food Group, Inc. (PFG) announced today that it had named Dave Flitman to the role of President & CEO of its Performance Foodservice broadline business segment reporting to George Holm, PFG President & CEO.

Flitman began his career with DuPont where he spent nearly 20 years in operational and leadership positions.  He joined Allegheny Power in February 2005 and served as President until July 2008.  Following that, Flitman was Senior Executive Vice President at Nalco until it was acquired by Ecolab.  He served Ecolab as Executive Vice President and President, Water and Process Services before joining Univar as Executive Vice President in December 2012.  In January 2014, he was named Chief Operating Officer and President, USA & Latin America at Univar, his most recent position.

Flitman earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University.          

Performance Foodservice operates a network of distribution centers supplying a broad array of products primarily to restaurant customers, as well as hotels, heath care facilities and other multi-unit institutional customers.  This segment serves more than 85,000 customer locations with over 125,000 food and food-related products.

About Performance Food Group:

Through its leading family of foodservice distributors – Performance Foodservice, Vistar and PFG Customized Distribution, Performance Food Group, Inc. (PFG) delivers over 150,000 national and proprietary-branded food and food-related products to more than 150,000 independent and national chain restaurants, quick-service eateries, pizzerias, theaters, schools, hotels, health care facilities and other institutions.  PFG operates one of the nation’s largest private truck fleets, as well as 67 distribution centers and 11 Merchant’s Mart locations across the United States. The company currently employs more than 12,000 people nationwide.  For more information, visit www.pfgc.com.

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