Project Description

Joseph Trover started his professional career at Landshire Inc. starting in 1998.  He was named President at Landshire at the annual employee appreciation party in 2001.  From there Landshire quickly grew from a regional business to a national player in the pre-packaged sandwich industry.  Sales were 25 million on an annual basis and product could be found in a 15 state area.  By 2007 sales had grown to 54 million annually and you could purchase these products in all 50 states.  In 2007 Joseph took over as C.E.O of Landshire.  In 2015, Joseph helped lead the transition team of selling off the manufacturing portion of Landshire and the brand name to Advance Pierre Foods.

Joseph now has opened and is the CEO of a start up company named Triple Sticks Foods, headquartered in Belleville Illinois.  Triple Sticks foods focuses on foods that have great flavor profile, but specialize in saving time and convenience.  The three main product lines are Pre-Packaged sandwiches, Refrigerated Meat and Cheese grab and go products and the third category is fully cooked ready to eat meatballs.

In his earlier career, Joseph graduated from Guilford College in 1996, where he played on the golf team for 4 years and was captain his junior year.  Joseph had a short professional career in Golf from 1996-1998 from working as an Assistant pro as well as competing in a few mini tour events.  In 1998 Joseph joined the full time work force as well as went back to School at night.  He graduated with his Masters of Business Administration from St. Louis University in 2000 to help better prepare him for his career in Business.

Joseph also had some side passion and business in Golf past 1998, as he was one of the primary owners and President of Yorktown Golf Course in Shiloh Illinois, from 1998-2014.  He also helped with his Father, Jody Trover,  on the creation, development, investor and operator of Far Oaks golf course in Caseyville Illinois from 1994-2003.

Joseph is currently a member at Algonquin Golf Club.

Joseph is married to Elizabeth Trover and has three children, Lucy who is 14, Joseph III who is 11 and Annabelle who is 5 years old.  Joseph currently resides in Webster Groves MO.