Business View Magazine | October 2019

213 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2019 1994-2019 YEARS With our warehouses centrally located in Tampa, Florida and the Midwest, Fare Foods is able to deliver to events on site in 44 different states. Our customers value our friendly customer service and appreciate consistent delivery of product to their events throughout the year. FARE FOODS CORPORATION 208 Cherry Lake Rd • DuQuoin, IL www.FareFoods.com Call Today! 800-651-1601 COMPLETE SUPPLY OF ALL CONCESSION PRODUCTS! Meat Produce Frozen Items Dry Goods Canned Goods Paper Products Fun Food Custom Printed Cups people, on average, depending on weather and other variables.” “We produce two events, each year,” Giordano continues. “Our main event is the annual State Fair of Louisiana, and the third weekend of January, we produce a Boat, Sport, and RV Show. The rest of the year, we lease facilities and lease the ground. We have about 60,000 square feet of indoor exhibit space, and that’s in three buildings. We lease them out for different types of functions – everything from private parties to trade shows to concerts. In 2015, we began leasing the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum to a company named Encompass Sports Management LLC. It owns an ice hockey team named the Shreveport Mudbugs who play in the North American Hockey League. They lease the Coliseum from us all year long with the exception of during the annual State Fair, when we put our events in the building. The remainder of the year, they play hockey from September to mid-April, and they also do some sub-leasing, bringing in other types of events, such as concerts, circuses, martial arts tournaments, etc.” THE STATE FA I R OF LOUI S I ANA