We all eat food. But some of us eat, sleep and breathe food.

Meet our All-Star Food Team – bringing to GodwinGroup a wealth of experience from such food powerhouses as NOBLE, Coke, Pepsi and McDonald’s.

NOBLE alumni Stacye Rinehart, Senior Vice President, Group Creative Director and Sue Templeman, Senior Vice President, Brand Manager.

Sue Templeman	Stacye Rinehart

Brand Manager Sue Templeman brings from NOBLE a wide range of management and strategic experience on dozens of national accounts in the retail arena, including Del Monte, Bunny Bread, Cobblestone Mill, Nature’s Own Bread, Stilwell Foods and Borden. Her foodservice equipment and restaurant experience at GodwinGroup includes the Unified Brands family of brands, Stero, Valley, Piccadilly Cafeterias and Whataburger. For more than 30 years, she has used her expertise and management savvy to plan and execute winning campaigns for her clients and the agency teams working with her.
 
Stacye Rinehart comes to GodwinGroup from NOBLE as well. Right-brained on one hand and frighteningly strategic on the other, Stacye strives to be effective in all of her dealings with food – whether she’s cooking it (gourmet style!), eating it or creating amazingly effective campaigns for Mrs. Smith Bakeries, Stilwell Foods, Dixie Crystal Sugar, Groen and Stero, among many others.

Meredith Cleland, Public Relations Strategist	Vicki Harper-Blake, Senior Vice President, Public Relations

PR is an integral aspect of any marketing program, and both Meredith Cleland and Vicki Harper-Blake bring a wealth of food experience and media contacts to the All-Star Food Team. For Stero, they leveraged many trade publication relationships to promote the launch of their ER Series of warewashers. In fact, the strategic media kits they developed and the key interviews they arranged earned Stero valuable coverage in more than ten of the leading industry publications. They did the same for Unified Brands – specifically Randell’s launch of their FX Series and Groen’s 100-year anniversary promotion. Meredith and Vicki don’t like to use phrases like, “We have them in our back pocket,” or “They love us,” but they have what they describe as “key relationships” with editors at a great many trade pubs including: Food Management, The Consultant, Foodservice Director, Restaurants and Institutions, Chef, Foodservice Equipment & Supplies, Foodservice Equipment Reports, Nation’s Restaurant News and Chain Leader, among many others.

As Senior Partner and Chairman, Danny Mitchell provides valuable counsel to GodwinGroup's food clients at the executive level. He joined the agency in
1983 as Senior Vice President, becoming president in 1988. In 1994, he took on the responsibilities of Chairman. He is frequently called upon as marketing counsel for CEOs and marketing directors of many of GodwinGroup's leading corporate accounts, which have included Whataburger, Piccadilly Cafeterias, Valley Foods, Unified Brands, Delta Pride Catfish, Bruno's Supermarkets, Inc. and many others. Danny's career has included partnership in a public relations consulting firm and ownership of two radio stations.

He was spokesman and communications manager for Jackson Public Schools during the turbulent years of desegregation, and is the only person to be elected to consecutive terms as President of the regional Southern Public Relations Federation. He is a member of the Mississippi Business Hall of Fame and a recipient of the AAF Jackson Silver Medal Award, the highest award given by the Jackson chapter of the American Advertising Federation.

He has served as President of both the University of Southern Mississippi Foundation as well as the Southern Miss Alumni Association.

To find out more about GodwinGroup and how our All-Star Food Team can help your business grow and prosper, contact Danny at 1.800.280.5711 or email dmitchell@godwin.com.