GoodWest Industries names Quenten Wentworth chief executive

GoodWest Industries LLC announced the appointment of Quenten Wentworth as chief executive. He succeeds Rick Lawlor, who becomes executive chairman.

GoodWest Industries, headquartered in Douglassville, Pa., is a national provider of coffee condiments and an innovator in the growing iced-coffee and cold-brew product segments. It manufactures aseptic beverages and foodservice dispensing solutions, and markets shelf-stable and bag-in-box coffee creamer and iced coffee. Palladium Equity Partners manages the private equity fund that acquired a majority interest in the company in 2015.

Wentworth has over 30 years of experience in senior leadership positions at such companies as Aramark, US Foods and PepsiCo. He joins GoodWest from Aramark, where he served as president of the Healthcare & Dining segment from 2015 to 2020 and, before that, as Aramark's group president, Europe.