News / Americold still out in the cold, financially, and CEO Fred Boehler is fired

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As earnings calls go, Americold’s results announcement for the third quarter was a rather brief affair – it more or less started with the news that management would not take any questions from analysts.

The composition of the management team was another departure from routine earnings calls: Americold president and CEO Fred Boehler was absent, owing to his being sacked that day.

The earnings release, issued earlier, announced he had been fired, without cause, with immediate effect, and he had also resigned ...