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Growth in a Market Like This Takes a Team Like No Other

Capture More New Foodservice Equipment Opportunities With LEAF

As a FEDA member leading the dynamic and competitive foodservice equipment industry, you know change isn’t the enemy. It’s the opportunity. The question is, what do you need from a finance partner to fully leverage today’s opportunities and position for strength as the hospitality marketplace continues to evolve? One thing’s certain: it’s going to take people who think beyond simple transactional financing and build strategic partnerships designed to help support business growth through every stage. People with extensive industry knowledge. People with decades of experience serving the sector to create tailored finance programs that make essential upgrades affordable and drive long-term customer relationships.

Industry-Targeted Solutions to Power Growth and Drive Results

Backed by the strength of M&T Bank, the experts at LEAF go beyond leading finance programs to create innovative solutions that solve real problems, support continuing business evolution, and help FEDA members position for growth in the hospitality marketplace. Here are just a few of the capabilities LEAF can offer your business:

Growing in the foodservice equipment market takes people who think differently. People who step up to become strategic partners, not just service providers. People with ideas on moving the needle and resources to make it happen.

LEAF’s leadership team draws on a wealth of experience creating programs, structures, and competitive differentiators that have driven FEDA members and their businesses across decades of market shifts.

Michelle, Sandy, and Michael along with dozens of other leaders across our national footprint know the needs of businesses like yours. They’re committed to supporting your continuing success. And they’re continually working to deliver the kind of creative, transformational solutions you won’t find anywhere else.

Here are just a few of the capabilities LEAF can offer your business:

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Michelle Speranza EVP, Chief Marketing Officer

Miles Herman Chief Executive Officer

John Beard EVP, Chief Risk Officer

Sandy Bernardino SVP, Corporate Operations

Paul Tyczkowski Director, Corporate Operations

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Unique Solutions

Every business is different, and every solution we create is unique, but they all begin with the same simple question:

What can we do to help move the needle?

Advanced finance platform technology to improve the efficiency and mobility of the sales process.

A faster, easier path to freeing foodservice equipment distributors and dealers from entrenched relationships with underperforming lease and finance providers.

Personalized advisory services and support from a team invested in the long-term evolution and success of FEDA members like you.

Creative, targeted plans that leverage LEAF’s finance flexibility to break through buyer hesitation and close sales faster.

Bundled solutions, regular sales incentives, and limited-time promotions help increase cash flow while simultaneously accelerating the sales cycle and earning you more on every deal.

Profit Programs

Creative Solutions

Personalization

Business Partnership

Finance Platform

Whatever it takes to move forward, we’re here to help you solve real problems with a comprehensive suite of resources and breakthrough thinking from a relationship-driven team of MVP leaders.

People like the ones at LEAF.

Thanks for learning more about what makes us a different kind of finance partner. Here at LEAF, we think the future belongs to those who aren’t afraid to push past yesterday’s answers and develop creative new solutions for what’s next. We hope this short introduction to our team and capabilities has helped you get to know us a little better, along with how we can support FEDA members like you. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your goals and how we can align to help you reach them.

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Marketing Support

IT Integration

Strategic Resources

LEAF’s advanced FinanceNOW platform streamlines the finance process, as well as supports stronger sales and customer experiences, with secure, instant access to pricing, credit decisions, documents, customer data, and more on any connected device.

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Strategic Resources

IT Integration

Marketing Support

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Whether your marketing plans could benefit from professionally crafted and customized print/digital sales assets, emails, social media, or an entire multichannel campaign to support a sophisticated strategy, you will have complimentary access to the services of one of the industry’s most advanced and capable communications departments.

LEAF’s industry-leading IT team and advanced technology power a more efficient finance program, a better customer experience, and improved decision making by tightly integrating finance program data with AutoQuotes and common accounting, operations, and CRM solutions.

LEAF is here to support FEDA members in every economic climate and provide a wide variety of resources to assist businesses in developing successful strategies for strengthening foodservice equipment sales, understanding market trends, and much more.

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FinanceNOW

Marketing Support

IT Integration

Strategic Resources

People like the ones at LEAF.

Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.

The Financing Fail That Became a Win

What do you do with a request for super-detailed billing for 27 locations? At LEAF, we smiled and took care of it — and then went the extra mile.

Splitting the Bill to Seal the Deal

When a six-figure deal on the edge of closing required an urgent modification and customization of the agreement, LEAF was able to get out-of-the-box...

Urgent Customer Need? Problem Solved

Better Results Start With Better Thinking

At LEAF, we don’t think outside the box. We were never in the box in the first place. When your customers need customized finance options that make foodservice equipment more affordable, we get creative. We take the time to really understand their needs before getting to work on solutions that don’t just check the boxes but also redefine what’s possible. Solutions like these:

Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.

The Financing Fail That Became a Win

What do you do with a request for super-detailed billing for 27 locations? At LEAF, we smiled and took care of it — and then went the extra mile.

Splitting the Bill to Seal the Deal

When a six-figure deal on the edge of closing required an urgent modification and customization of the agreement, LEAF was able to get out-of-the-box...

Urgent Customer Need? Problem Solved

Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.

The Financing Fail That Became a Win

What do you do with a request for super-detailed billing for 27 locations? At LEAF, we smiled and took care of it — and then went the extra mile.

Splitting the Bill to Seal the Deal

When a six-figure deal on the edge of closing required an urgent modification and customization of the agreement, LEAF was able to get out-of-the-box...

Urgent Customer Need? Problem Solved

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Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.

The Financing Fail That Became a Win

What do you do with a request for super-detailed billing for 27 locations? At LEAF, we smiled and took care of it — and then went the extra mile.

Splitting the Bill to Seal the Deal

When a six-figure deal on the edge of closing required an urgent modification and customization of the agreement, LEAF was able to get out-of-the-box...

Urgent Customer Need? Problem Solved

Business Partnership

A faster, easier path to freeing foodservice equipment distributors and dealers from entrenched relationships with underperforming lease and finance providers.

Increased Profits

Bundled solutions, regular sales incentives, and limited-time promotions help increase cash flow while simultaneously accelerating the sales cycle and earning you more on every deal.

Finance Platform

Advanced finance platform technology to improve the efficiency and mobility of the sales process.

Personalized advisory services and support from a team invested in the long-term evolution and success of FEDA members like you.

Personalization

Creative Solutions

Creative, targeted plans that leverage LEAF’s finance flexibility to break through buyer hesitation and close sales faster.

Every business is different, and every solution we create is unique. But they all begin with the same simple question:

What can we do to help move the needle?

Unique Solutions

10 Equipment Investment Trends in the Hospitality Industry Today Capitalizing on New Travel and Dining Trends Growing Revenue With “Bleisure”

Strategic Resources

IT Integration

Whether your marketing plans could benefit from professionally crafted and customized print/digital sales assets, emails, social media, or an entire multichannel campaign to support a sophisticated strategy, you will have complementary access to the services of one of the industry’s most advanced and capable communications departments.

Marketing Support

Learn More About the FinanceNOW Platform

FinanceNOW

Backed by the strength of People’s United Bank, the experts at LEAF have gone beyond leading finance programs to create innovative solutions like the LEAF CapitalAlliance™, a suite of capital, integration, and marketing solutions that solve real problems, support continuing business evolution, and help office products businesses position for growth in the marketplace.

Here are just a few of the advantages the LEAF CapitalAlliance™ can offer your business:

Industry-Targeted Solutions to Power Growth and Drive Results

Matt Diehl Head of Business Development and Program Management

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Joe Burns LEAF Sales Team Leader

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Rob Wasson LEAF Sales Team Leader

Matt Diehl Head of Business Development and Program Management

Joe Burns LEAF Sales Team Leader

Firmly rooted in delivering flexible finance solutions for a wide variety of industries, LEAF’s leadership team draws on a wealth of experience creating programs, structures, and competitive differentiators that have driven FEDA members and their businesses across decades of market shifts.