rondelé Specialty Foods, Merrill, Wis.-Jane Passamani joins as Midwest area manager. Since April Passamani has been responsible for managing sales budgets, overseeing promotional activities and working with brokers in key retail merchandising markets. A 17-year veteran of the food industry, Passamani most recently worked as the regional sales mgr. for Bongrain Cheese, New Holland, Pa.
Hixson, Cincinnati-Three new staff members added. Bradley Jones joins Hixson as a structural project engineer, Mary Beth Wagner joins as a CAD designer, and Matthew Spangler joins as an architect intern. Hixson is an architecture/ engineering firm specializing in creating workplaces for corporations, including headquarters, R&D, sanitary processing facilities and fashion retail.