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Friendly’s taps John M. Maguire as new CEO

By Chris Reidy

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 19, 2012

Friendly’s Ice Cream LLC, the Wilbraham-based company that operates the Friendly’s restaurant chain, named John Maguire to be its new CEO. Previously an executive with the Panera Bread restaurant chain, he succeeds Harsha Agadi, who resigned as Friendly’s CEO in February. Friendly’s was once an ice cream icon in much of New England. But it spent several months in bankruptcy, before exiting from bankruptcy protection earlier this year.

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