CSP Magazine | February 2013

The Kids Are All Right

A new generation of leaders is taking over, bringing a tech-savvy, family-balanced, social-media swagger to the industry.

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That sound you hear is a torch passing.

The vision, direction and future achievements of a company rest on its emerging leaders, those whose voices galvanize, whose energy ignites action. As c-store titans of the baby boomer set witness the growing savvy of those they’ve nurtured, these up-and-comers are grabbing the baton, running full bore into the uncertainty of fuel formulation, foodservice strategy and a new age of social technology.

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