Irvine’s Golden State Foods Gets New President

Richard W. Gochnauer, an executive vice president of Dial Corp., was selected president and chief operating officer for privately held Golden State Foods, a $1-billion food processor and distributor based in Irvine. Before his five-year stint at Dial, Gochnauer served as president of a division of Universal Foods and as president of the international division of Schreiber Foods.