Employer review - Anonymous employee Russell Stover Employee Review

3.0
Mar 10, 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A great job for many years when it was a family owned business. When Russell Stover was purchased by Lindt Sprungli everything changed. They do not understand the DSD business and had no clue what the business model was. All DSD sales job were eliminated and farmed out to a third party. It is obvious now to them that they made a mistake and they are scrambling to try and regain market share in the confection industry.

Cons

No knowledge of DSD sales, and no loyalty to long term employees

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Cons

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