'The city had a certain kind of expectation of this new start-up college and the students, of course, had a totally different expectation of their role as students.' 'There was a tension between the students and the city,' said Misemer, a member of the charter class and chairman of the school's foundation board. The 18-year-old's destination was Sarasota, a community that liked the idea of being a college town but was not quite ready for the 101 idealistic students that descended on New College from all corners of the country. He then became president of PepsiCo’s Fountain Beverage operations in 1986.Ĭranor was promoted to president of Pepsi-Cola East in February 1988, making him responsible for all Pepsi operations in the Northeast.SARASOTA COUNTY - In 1964, Ken Misemer traveled by bus from Missouri to a new experimental liberal arts school in a sleepy, conservative Florida town. In 1985, he joined Taco Bell and became division vice president, making him responsible for 1,300 restaurants in the United States. He began his PepsiCo career in 1977 as marketing group manager at Frito- Lay, where he eventually served as vice president of new business development and vice president of marketing.Ĭranor then was a senior vice president and later president of Wilson Sporting Goods, then a Pepsico subsidiary. It was acquired by PepsiCo in October 1986.Ĭranor has held a series of marketing, operations and general management positions in the restaurant, soft drinks and snack food businesses.

KFC is the world’s second-largest quick service restaurant system with about 8,000 restaurants generating sales of nearly $6 billion. ″We have great confidence in the entire KFC organization, and look forward to even greater success in the years ahead under John’s leadership.″ ″We’re very fortunate to have a leader of John Cranor’s caliber to succeed Dick,″ Calloway said in a news release.

Wayne Calloway, chairman of the board and chief executive of Pepsico, based in Purchase, N.Y. Mayer, who resigned to become president of General Foods U.S.A., said D. subsidiary.Ĭranor, 42, formerly president of Pepsi-Cola East, will succeed Richard P. Cranor III, a top executive at Pepsico Inc., was appointed Friday as president and chief executive of the food and soft drink maker’s Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp.

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