Dave Riebe has been named president of Kountry Kraft, manufacturers of custom cabinetry since 1959. The Newmanstown, Penn.-based company, ranked 266 in the FDMC 300 list of top companies with an estimated $16 million in sales and 125 employees. “We sell an experience… the experience of feeling at home in the kitchen," said Riebe. "The experience of being together. That to me is what the business is about – providing that experience for families, for generations, for life.”
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