Caribbean Cold Storage Adds Sheldon Friedman To Their Sales Team

Jacksonville based Caribbean Cold Storage announces the addition of Sheldon Friedman to their sales team.

May 31, 2005 - Paul Robbins, CEO of Jacksonville based Caribbean Cold Storage, announces the addition of Sheldon Friedman to their Business Development team. Friedman will be operating out of their Jacksonville, FL office.

Robbins, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Caribbean Cold Storage and Caribbean Shipping Services, announced the addition to his team on Tuesday, May 31, 2005. "Sheldon is a seasoned sales and management professional with over 27 years of experience working with warehouse operations and business development" according to Robbins. "Sheldon's mission is to establish Caribbean Cold Storage as a leader in warehousing solutions and in turn help us to attain our strategic growth and development goals."

Caribbean Cold Storage and Caribbean Shipping Services were founded in 1993 by Paul and Julie Robbins. Today they operate from their main offices in Jacksonville, FL and satellite offices in Miami, FL , San Juan, PR, Charlotte, NC and Howell, NJ . The companies have twice been named to INC Magazine's list of 100 Fastest Growing Inner City Companies. Since 1999 they have also been included in the First Coast 50, a listing of the top fifty companies in Northeast Florida. Caribbean Shipping Services and Caribbean Cold Storage offer ocean, air, inland transportation and consolidation services.

Earlier this year, Caribbean Cold Storage was named an approved distributor for the export market for YUM! Brands. They are one of only three companies in the United States to have such recognition. YUM! Brands is a holding company comprised of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants. They are a Fortune 300 Company based in Louisville, KY. They are the world's largest quick-service restaurant company with over 33,000 restaurants in 100 countries.

In his pursuit of "cutting edge of technology", Robbins co-founded Revolutionary Cold Technologies. RCT developed and patented a new technology that reduces the cost of mechanical refrigeration for refrigerated trailers and shipping containers by as much as 35-40%. "We have been beta testing this new technology with Caribbean Shipping for 5 years and the results have been incredible" said Robbins.