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04.16.2025
Meet our Global Volunteer Month champions
At Advantage Solutions, giving back is more than just a concept — it’s at the core of who we are. Our 60,000-plus employees live and serve in communities across the U.S. and Canada. Through strategic community engagement, we aim to amplify our impact through providing food security, promoting economic mobility or supporting overall well-being. Put […]
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04.09.2025
CFO Chris Growe: ‘Giving back is a necessary element of my life’
(Advantage Solutions CFO Chris Growe talks to Hope Ignites Cincinnati Alumna Ruva Chimusoro in 2019. Photo courtesy of Hope Ignites.) Helping those in need has been a lifelong practice for Advantage Solutions Chief Financial Officer Chris Growe. And for the last 40 of his 50 years, Growe has remained steadfast in his support of one […]
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03.20.2025
From part-timer to senior vice president, Miguel Torres shares his career journey at Advantage Solutions
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Miguel Torres joined Advantage Solutions in 2005 as a part-time merchandiser working with the Kroger team for SAS Retail Services while still in college. Twenty years later, Torres is senior vice president of operations for the Ahold Delhaize USA team — a career journey that illustrates the depth of opportunity […]
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03.20.2025
From part-time team member to leading the team, Miguel Torres shares his career journey at Advantage Solutions
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Miguel Torres joined Advantage Solutions in 2005 as a part-time merchandiser for SAS Retail Services while still in college — and never looked back. His career journey from part-timer to senior vice president of operations for the Ahold Delhaize USA team illustrates the depth of opportunity and career mobility […]
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12.03.2024
Meet Community Volunteer Champion Kelly Petersen
Just before Thanksgiving last week, Kelly Petersen took her son Lucas, 7, to volunteer at the St. Louis Area Foodbank. Alongside other volunteers, they sorted and packed the equivalent of more than 18,000 meals for people in need in the St. Louis area. For Petersen, the experience represented an opportunity to teach her son about […]
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09.23.2024
ADV’s Andrea Young shares her thoughts on inclusion and belonging
Andrea Young, chief operating officer for experiential services, knows a thing or two about the power of being one’s authentic self. As Advantage Solutions’ first openly LGBTQ+ executive leader, Young was a founding member of the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion board in 2020. Years earlier, upon her hire, she helped to expand benefits for […]
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09.11.2024
Q&A With ADV’s Chief Storyteller on What’s Behind the Rebrand
When Kelli Hammersmith was first approached about coming to work for Advantage Solutions, she wasn’t clear on what exactly the company did. Googling didn’t help much. At the time, Advantage Solutions appeared to be “a federation of disparate agencies” lacking any sort of cohesive narrative, said Hammersmith, who was hired in March 2023 as the […]
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