Company Profile

Danmart, Inc. 

Danmart Food Brokerage goals are to achieve and exceed the objectives of each principal.  To achieve this goal, we must work very closely with the principals that we represent. Being a company with self-imposed limits to the number of principals, we are able to devote a great deal of time to the needs of each principal. Danmart, Inc. offers a highly motivated and professional sales force. It is our belief that the operators are equally as important as the headquarters operation. We are committed to controlling the street and maximizing our principal’s objectives with strong operator work.  Our commitment to excellence will insure each principal credibility and integrity in the market areas represented by Danmart, Inc. which will mean growth for both of us.  Danmart prides itself in the relationships we have established through our dedication to our customers and manufacturers. 

We specialize in taking "name brand" retail manufacturers and introducing them into the Foodservice side of the business. In doing so, we have pioneered many manufacturers into successful Foodservice Companies.

Danmart has the honor of being Super Bakery’s National Broker of the Year for 2007-2008, as well as the Mid-Central Broker of the year for 2007-2008 and South-Central broker of the year for 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. In the past years of companies we represented, we were the broker of the year for MJM and earned top bonus from Pierre Foods, and awarded Shasta’s highest in sales broker. 

We will continue to serve our manufacturers and customers with service beyond expectations.

Danmart Management & Staff

Martin Renaud, President of Danmart, Inc.

Marty has over 30 years experience within the food service industry.  He began his food service experience as a culinary art student, winning the state cook-off and continuing on to represent the state of Vermont in the National Cook off.  He then served as a cook in the Navy and was selected to cook at the Presidential Support Camp at Camp David.  After the Navy, Marty managed several restaurants over the next five years from coast to coast, including Vermont, Texas, and California.  His expertise was in turning non-profitable restaurants into profitable businesses.  

In 1988, Marty joined Grazak Food Services in Houston, Texas as a sales representative.  Within the first year, Marty created an entity for Grazak.  He ventured into new territory and developed the bid department, which specialized in schools, universities and prison food service.  Marty was soon promoted to Bid Coordinator and successfully generated an increase of 40% of the total company sales. 

When the owner of Grazak retired in 1998 and the business dissolved, Marty began his entrepreneur career, with his own food brokerage business “Danmart Food Brokerage”.   Marty has succeeded in seeing that Danmart Food Brokerage has strong relationships with major distributors as well as the second tier distributors throughout Texas.  He has extensive knowledge of the food service industry through all levels of advancement through out his career.  

Donna Renaud, Office Manager, Accounting, Customer Services

Donna has over 25 years experience in office operations, including communications, order processing, billings, and customer relations.   Donna has specialized in food service customer service representation since 2000.  She is directly responsible for working with vendors, distributors, and is the liaison with Danmart’s sales force.

Nichole brings to Danmart 10 years of experience of customer services, communication & computer skills in the warehousing and transportation industries.  Nichole has become a vital member of our team, since joining Danmart in March of 2008. She has applied her skills to the foodservice industry in becoming very efficient in working with Marty on the bids. Out of the bid season Nichole’s responsibilities will be in-house accounts, customer services and assisting the sales force in all aspects of their needs to perform their jobs to the fullest.  

Betty comes to Danmart with 20 plus years of experience in the food ervice industry.  Betty moved to Houston from New Orleans after the famous flood brought on by "Katrina," where she owned her own brokerage business.

Upon graduation from the University of Colorado, Betty joined the staff of Colorado State University Extension Service.  Betty directed and developed the Expanded Federal Nutrition Education program.  She supervised staff and taught training classes to both youth and adults with the mandate of practical application to improve nutrition.

Betty moved into food service as a food broker.  She has worked successfully in all aspects of food service, including owning her own brokerage firm and specializing in healthcare, schools, national accounts, deli, bakery, and convenience stores.  Over the years she has demonstrated effective salesmanship, twice being named Super Bakery's Regional Broker, Farmland Foods Broker of the year, five consecutive years to Heartland's Million Dollar Club. While these accolades are appreciated, her most effective skills have been developing and maintaining relationships with customers, distributors, and manufacturers.  

Butch LaRotonda, Houston Area Sales 

Butch LaRotonda has 25 years experience in the sales and service industry. With these years of sales experience, Butch joined Danmart Food Brokerage sales team to focus on street food sales, i.e. country clubs, restaurants, deli's, hospitals, day cares and school districts.

Butch worked for Coastal Food Brokers in New Orleans before relocating to Houston. For Coastal Foods, he focused on large accounts such as the Superdome, and the many Louisiana Gulf Coast casino's were his primary accounts. He also assisted with working the Food shows, doing ride-withs with distributor-sales staff and assisting in the office.

Prior to food sales, Butch worked in appliance and electronic sales. In this capacity he was responsible for all store and warehouse operations, for companies such as A-1 Appliance Electronics and Campo Appliance and Electronics. He progressed up the corporate ladder starting from sales manager, to a store manager, to district manager and on to a regional manager. He hired and trained all sales personnel to insure that everyone was focused on the corporate goals. He established and was in charge of Campo University which was a school that helped develop assistant store managers into "store managers."

Butch and Betty moved to Houston, Texas to be close to their family after Hurricane Katrina. 

Belle Wiley, Sales, D-FW/North Texas &  Central Texas Area 

Belle joined Danmart, Inc. in January 2009. Upon graduating from Texas State University, Belle received a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration with a minor in Finance. She has a license in Real Estate Sales and is a licensed Auctioneer in the State of Texas. Belle worked at J Hester Properties for six years. She decided she wanted a change, so she put a lot of thought in sales. 

Although she is new to working in the Food Service Brokerage business, she is no stranger to the industry. Belle plans to follow the legacy of her Grandfather, who is a long-time, well-respected broker throughout the State of Texas. While watching, working and learning from him, this has positioned Belle into a new career in Food Service.

We are pleased to have Belle. She offers great enthusiasm and fresh new ideas. Within these months of time, Belle has established herself with the area Distributors and School Districts. She has now had the opportunity to work with our Manufacturers, she has worked Food shows, and performed cuttings in her market, thus proving to be an asset to Danmart as our sales representative for the North Texas (D-FW) and Central Texas markets.

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