“The BUNN Story” is a monthly

communication focused on information

related to our corporate citizenship
initiative including community and
industry outreach, sustainability and
employee professional accomplishments.

The OCTOBER 2018

BUNNstory
Hygiene for Helping the
Homeless Get Through Winter

A group of honors program
students at Lincoln Land
Community College in
Springfield would like to thank
the entire BUNN Springfield
community for its generosity.
The group was spearheading a
project to positively impact the
local community by creating
“care packages” for homeless
shelters in preparation for the
upcoming winter weather.
The group was seeking
donations of items such as
blankets, plastic garbage bags,
bottled water, Chapstick, band-
aids, socks, gloves/hats, granola
bars, toothbrushes/toothpaste/
mouthwash, hand warmers,
tampons, and baby wipes.
Due to the generoisty of
BUNN employees, the goal to
accumulate enough items to
distribute 100 packages across
various homeless shelters in the
Springfield area was met. Thank
you for your contributions to
the project.
BUNN Supports Iowa Helps Bright Eyes Event
Coffee Communities
Around the World

Once again, this year BUNN
has played a major role in
making the Let’s Talk Coffee
expo a success.
The 2018 event took place
in Cartagena, Colombia and
was hosted by EKIPANDO.
(From left) Jenny Robinson and son Trenton, Stephanie Blazek, Iowa employee Chris Cerda enjoys the evening at Bright Eyes
Bethany Riemenschneider and son Ryder spent time working with his family.
at the BUNN table during the Bright Eyes event.
BUNN joined with the Creston Bright Eyes is an annual fund raiser
community in enjoying some for the Creston Animal Rescue
Halloween fun by hosting a table Effort, which is celebrating it’s 20th
at the Bright Eyes Event held on anniversary this year.
October 27 at McKinley Park.

BUNN supplied the

equipment for the tasting
room where coffees were

Halloween Party for a Cause

presented from Africa,
Peru, and Colombia. The
Triangulation Competition
also took place.

Along with the tasting room,

the BUNN display area was
highlighted by attendees
tasting the best coffees of
the show, all of this thanks
to the generous sponsorship
of BUNN, for which the Team Canada employees spent Halloween day getting into the holiday spirit by dressing up in their favorite costumes and taking
organizers were grateful. part in a balloon game. Employees purchase tickets to throw darts to win the prizes inside the balloons. All the money raised was
donated to cancer research.

Team Canada got into the holiday Employees paid $2 per dart or $5 for
spirit on October 31 as it hosted its three shots) with the object of game
annual Halloween party. being to break the balloons to win
the small prizes located inside.
Employees were encouraged to wear
their favorite costume and prizes The dart game raised $175 with a
were awarded for the top three. company match for a total of $350
which was donated to help fund
Along with the fun of the day, there cancer research.
was a cause to the party as well.
Money was raised from playing a
balloon dart game.
Creston Purchasing Department Employee News
Takes Time to Serve at Open Table New Hires
Andrew Burchard
Service Parts Inventory &
Planning Analyst
Springfield

Mike DeMarco
Field Service Engineer
Seattle, Wash.

(From left) Creston Purchasing Department team members Colin Brennan, Emily Edwards, Karen Berry, Crissi Tracy, Danielle Kuhn,
and Robin Fry all spent an evening serving meals at the Open Table service.

The Iowa Purchasing Department Open Table is a weekly meal Jeff Maley
volunteered their time to serve hot provided at no-charge to individuals Field Service Engineer
Allentown, Pa.
meals coupled with bright smiles at in-need throughout the Creston area.
the local Open Table.

Karrie McCormick
Service Account Manager
Springfield

Made in Union County Educates

The Union County Development
Association hosted the second annual
Zachary Mohme
“Made in Union County” event. Instructional Developer
Springfield
This meet and greet session is
designed to expose area 8th
grade students to careers available
throughout the County.

Team Iowa was represented by

Paul Varner and Lynette Cose who Adrienne Sweet
BUNNServe Billing
engaged students in fun learning Administrator
activities that were designed to Springfield
provide insight into the various career
opportunities that are available
through BUNN. Engineering Manager Paul Varner and HR Trainer Lynette Cose
staff the BUNN table at the Made In Union County outreach
event in Creston.
 Give A “Shout Out!” Employee News
I would like to give a “Shout Out” to Cheryl Pirie who works in our Finance On the Move
department. Cheryl is often the unsung hero to all departments within BUNN The following list of
Canada often working behind the scenes in providing analysis and reports to
help departments make decisions. Her Excel knowledge is tremendous and I
employees have been
personally value her support and can-do attitude.” promoted to new positions
- Stephane Lauzon within BUNN.

Here is a “Shout Out” to all the NACS 2019 Team Members. We worked this
show with a much smaller team and I was very pleased with the professionalism Brian Alexander
and customer centric approach everyone demonstrated. I am confident these Senior Manager – Materials and Scheduling
efforts will pay off with business coming from this show.
– Bob Pierce
Tony VanAusdall
Congratulations to Ronnie Van Gelder, Technical Manager/Europe. Ronnie White Hall Plant Manager
and his wife Julia, welcomed their baby boy Denzel September 12. Denzel was
anxious and came early, weighing just 3.8 lbs. Denzel finally came home from the
hospital October 7 and is blossoming. Congratulations on your blessing! Ella Grarup
- Lina Chiodo and the EMEA Team Continuous Improvement Manager

I would like to give a “Shout Out” to Michelle Dixon for the work she does in
Traffic. We had a freight company issue and she worked hard to get another Tim Connelly
company to come in and get our equipment to the trade show. Manufacturing Engineering Manager
- Karalynn McDermott

I’d like to give a “Shout Out” to Cheryl Pirie. She is our Excel guru and is T.J. Nishimoto
consistently wowing us with her fantastic skills. She is always willing to help us Springfield Manufacturing
with our projects, while continuing to do her other job duties. She created the Operations Manager
amazing 2 second LEAN database that has made the lives of the Operations
team so much easier. Thank you, Cheryl, for everything you do. You are truly
appreciated by many. Todd Abel
- Sandra Uzzell Senior Global Logistics and
Distribution Manager
I want a “Shout Out” to say a HUGE thank you to a team of individuals who
stepped up and pulled off a big success for the Sodexo Global Expo in Orlando.
With 1,000 participants from all over the world joining together to experience Laura Hayes
“Focus on Growth,” BUNN was featured in several of the booths. Leaders from Senior Inventory Control Specialist
different parts of the organization were in attendance and this team of individuals
pulled off the execution of getting the equipment to the location for install in
a matter of hours. Thanks to Josh Bell, Steve Shaw, Scott Bennett, Michelle Jason Gribbins
Dixon, Julie Gurski, and Mike Merck for the extra effort each put in to make the Materials Manager
event a BUNN success.
- Randy Vickery

“I would like to give a “Shout Out” to Alexandra Cawthorne, Margaret

Bacchus, Mark Gammage, Jim Chmara and The Operations Team for their
quick response to the water main break at the front of the Canadian facility last
month. The wall of water rushing towards the front door didn’t seem to faze this
group. While they called the town to have the water turned off, trenches where
dug to divert and we continued to operate without missing a beat.
- Dave Ovenell

White Hall celebrated two position switches

8,882 217
this month. Former Plant Manager, Brian
Alexander, took the position of Senior
2018 BUNN Community Service Organizations Served Manager, Materials and Scheduling in
Springfield while Tony Van Ausdall joined
Outreach Hours
the White Hall team from Springfield and
will now serve as the Plant Manager.
Make sure your hours are being entered every month in Inforsource or send them to Community.Outreach@bunn.com!

Everyone at White Hall would like to wish

If you have a professional accomplishment you would like to share with the best of luck and congratulations to both
your co-workers, please send the information to scott.reed@bunn.com. Brian and Tony in their new roles!