The handmade pretzel shop invites customers to enjoy a free original soft pretzel on Thursday, April 26 when they follow the brand on Facebook or Instagram ATLANTA (April 2, 2018) – Follow us to a free pretzel! Pretzelmaker®, Read More »
ATLANTA – April 2, 2018 – Doing taxes not your idea of a doggone good time? Hot Dog on a Stick agrees! Which is why, on Tax Day, Tuesday April 17, Hot Dog on a Stick is giving Read More »
ATLANTA (March 27, 2018) – Cookies & Cream and the American Dream! Thanks to Great American Cookies®, Tax Day will once again be pretty sweet. The national gourmet cookie shop will continue its annual Tax Day tradition by Read More »
Red Velvet S’mores Ice Cream, Red Velvet S’mores Shake and Red Velvet Waffle Cones will have fans craving RED and tasting deliciousness ATLANTA (March 6, 2018) – Marble Slab Creamery® and MaggieMoo’s® Ice Cream and Treatery are painting Read More »
Join Round Table Pizza® for National Pizza Pie Day Benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Free Original Personal Pizza (Cheese or Pepperoni) from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. with any Pepsi® fountain drink purchase. CONCORD, Calif. – January Read More »
Part Brownie. Part Cookie. A new colossal treat just in time for Valentine’s Day ATLANTA, Jan. 8, 2018 – In a bakery where the ovens are always hot, Great American Cookies® couldn’t keep them apart. Our fudgy brownie Read More »
For the third year in a row, Pretzelmaker® stores across the country are celebrating Customer Appreciation Month with $1 pretzels and buy one get one coupons for free Pretzel Bites with purchase on your next visit ATLANTA – Read More »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT Kathleen Shaffer / [email protected] / (470) 388-6170 ATLANTA (November 21, 2017) – The free cookie countdown is on! Great American Cookies®, the baker of the country’s most famous and most delicious cookies, will Read More »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT Kathleen Shaffer / [email protected] / (470) 388-6170 Gourmet bake shop Great American Cookies® added to existing Marble Slab Creamery® on Hutchinson Blvd. Panama City, Florida (November 20, 2017) – Here is some sweet Read More »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT Kathleen Shaffer / [email protected] / (470) 388-6170 To celebrate the launch of the new treats, Great American Cookies® is offering a buy 3 get 1 free special ATLANTA (November 15, 2017) – Get Read More »
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Annica Conrad
Chief Marketing Officer
Annica has more than 20 years of award-winning marketing experience and has been with GFG for 3 years. She joined the company from Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers where she was Vice President, Brand Development. In this role, Annica was responsible for the rebirth and growth in popularity of the 42-year-old eclectic brand through smart menu design and development, implementation of the Mellow Mushroom loyalty app and creation and rollout of its first online ordering system. Before her time with Mellow Mushroom, Annica was Vice President of Marketing for Mcalister’s Corporation and she spent the early part of her career at a prominent advertising agency in Mobile Alabama. She is graduate of Samford University in Birmingham where she earned her Bachelors in Marketing and MBA in Economics.
Sam Patterson
Chief Financial Officer
Patterson came to Global Franchise Group in April 2020 from FOCUS Brands where he served as Senior Vice President of Accounting. For the last eleven years, he was responsible for leading financials for Cinnabon, Carvel, Schlotzsky’s, Moe’s Southwest Grill, McAlister’s Deli, Auntie Anne’s and Jamba Juice. He directed the organization through the transfer and integration of all accounting back-office functions for Auntie Anne’s from Pennsylvania, McAlister’s Deli from Mississippi, and Jamba Juice from Texas to Atlanta and converted a brand-centric accounting structure into a shared services organization. Before his time with FOCUS, he was Senior Vice President & Corporate Controller for Movie Gallery/Hollywood Video (NASDAQ: MOVI & MVGR), Vice President and Corporate Controller for Republic National Cabinet Corporation, and Corporate Controller for Wolverine Tube, Inc. (NYSE: WLV). He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant, holds a master’s in business administration from Auburn University, and is a graduate of the University of Texas, Tyler.
