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Discussing Today’s Challenging Business Environment

by Emily Webber | Aug 20, 2025 | Blog

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“When appointed CEO of a $500 million public company in a turnaround situation, I immediately turned to Joe Bione and his Whitehall team to assist in the restructuring. With Joe at the helm of operations, we had steady improvements in all aspects of operation, stabilizing quality delivery and throughput with significant impacts on capacity utilization and minimizing scrap. During this process we did not lose a single customer and this was a critical factor in our success.”

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Mr. Bione was awarded the 2025 M&A Advisors Award for “Out of Court Restructuring” for a family manufacturing company and was also awarded the 2023 M&A Advisors Award for “Restructuring of the Year” for a privately held manufacturing company. ($10-$25M category). While serving as Interim President/CEO he was awarded the 2016 (ML100) Award for “Turnaround of the Year in Manufacturing” for dramatically restructuring of a $52M manufacturing company. In a prior assignment as EVP of Operations for a $500M bankrupt manufacturing company, he was awarded the 2012 (ML100) Award for “Visionary Leadership” as part of the restructuring team that returned the business to profitability in 18 months.

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