CEO of the year: all smiles at Marsh. (Don Marsh of Marsh Supermarkets Inc.)(includes related article)

From: Indiana Business Magazine | Date: December 1, 1993| Author: Johnson, J. Douglas | Copyright information

Don Marsh heads a billion-dollar-plus supermarket chain and helped create the industry's most comprehensive study

A buoyant Marsh Supermarkets television spot sings, "Gonna make you smile, smile, smile." The people at Marsh will do it, too. It'll start with Don Ermal Marsh himself. He'll smile at you and you'll smile back. Everybody in the whole organization smiles.

Don Marsh smiled through our interview in his office on the fourth floor at the northeastern corner o...

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