July 10, 2024 — At Schwan’s Company, we have a long-standing tradition of recognizing employees who best represent our core principles and our culture.
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| Former CEO Dimitrios Smyrnios, left, and newly appointed CEO Brian Schiegg helped celebrate our 2024 Founders' Award recipients: Lisa Haen, Theresa Zaske, Michael Gunn, Lisa Harmening, Cliff Buck and Dwayne Dahlberg. |
We recently recognized six of our best with our most prestigious honor — the Founders’ Award.
Recipients this year included:
- Dwayne Dahlberg, an area distribution
manager for our Consumer Brands business who has been with us for six years.
- Michael Gunn, a culinary director for our
research and development team who has been with the company for 22 years.
- Theresa Zaske, a community relations
manager who has been with the company for 35 years.
- Lisa Harmening, our vice president of
solutions delivery who has been with our information services team for 33
years.
- Lisa Haen, a senior learning and development
business partner who has been with the company for 25 years.
- Cliff Buck, a senior distribution manager who has worked for us for more than three decades.
Schwan's Company's Founders’ Award recognizes employees who demonstrate our company’s principles of “Integrity, Passion, Creativity and Respect,” and whose actions help the company achieve our core value of OnlyOne (to be first, best or different in the marketplace).
CEO Brian Schiegg and other executive leaders
traveled to each recipient’s work location to surprise them with the
recognition. Their family members were also invited to the surprise events. On
top of that, the recipients were officially presented with the award during an
awards dinner.
Watch the accompanying video to see it all happen!
