Flowers Foods, producer of Nature’s Own, Dave’s Killer Bread, Wonder, Tastykake and other bakery foods, has elected a new board member. W. Jameson McFadden, president of Wellington Shields & Co., will join Flowers Foods’ board of directors effective Jan. 4, 2021. “We welcome Jameson as an independent director of the Flowers board,” said George E. Deese, chairman of the board of Flowers […]
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GSF Promotes Ryan Hammer To New Executive Leadership Role
Golden State Foods, one of the largest diversified suppliers to the foodservice and retail industries, has promoted Ryan Hammer to corporate SVP and president of Quality Custom Distribution (QCD). From QCD’s Frisco, Texas headquarters, Hammer will continue overseeing all aspects of the QCD logistics business and now will assume responsibility for GSF’s Liquid Products North America (LPNA) sales team. “Ryan […]
Kellogg Company Directors Elect J. Michael Schlotman To Kellogg Company Board
Battle Creek, Michigan-based Kellogg Co. has announced the election of J. Michael Schlotman, former EVP and CFO at The Kroger Co., to its board of directors, effective immediately. “We are very pleased to welcome Mike to our board of directors,” said Steve Cahillane, chairman and CEO of the Kellogg Co. “His tremendous financial experience, coupled with his extensive […]
Hormel Foods Announces Plant Manager Advancements, Retirement
Austin, Minnesota-based Hormel Foods Corp., a global branded food company, has announced the advancements of several plant managers as a result of the company’s recently announced retirement and advancements in its operations leadership. Joe Muzik, plant manager at the Algona, Iowa, plant, will assume the plant manager role at Progressive Processing in Dubuque, Iowa. Jeremy Rummel, plant manager […]
Giant Food Names Industry Veteran Badibanga As SVP Of Operations
Giant Food, a greater Washington D.C. regional grocery chain, named Irfan Badibanga as the new SVP of operations effective Nov. 1. Badibanga will be responsible for leading all operational aspects of Giant Food including regional operations, store support, strategic store planning and execution and asset protection, as well as people, team and culture development. Badibanga brings a strong track record […]
Albertsons Companies Appoints Mary Beth West To Board Of Directors
Albertsons Companies, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, has appointed Mary Beth West to its board of directors. West has a proven track record of innovation and transformation across myriad facets of retail. She began her career at Kraft Foods and over the course of 21 years of working on some of the food industry’s most iconic […]
JBT Corp. Appoints Paschall To Executive Leadership Team
Chicago-based JBT Corp. has promoted Kristina Paschall to the company’s executive leadership team as EVP, chief information and digital officer, effective immediately. Along with her responsibilities leading JBT’s global IT organization, Paschall will drive technology-enabled business growth and the expansion of JBT’s IoT (iOPS) product capabilities to deliver measurable customer value. Additional emphasis will be on […]
Kimberly-Clark Announces Executive Leadership Changes
Dallas, Texas-based Kimberly-Clark Corp. has announced executive leadership changes, effective Nov. 1. Jeff Melucci, currently SVP of business development and general counsel, has been named as chief transformation, business development and legal officer. In this role he has added responsibility for the company’s transformation roadmap for further building its global organizational capabilities. This expanded role assumes […]
