Industry News on 'Careers and Workforce'
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American Egg Board Names Mike Koenigs Chief Outreach and Operations Officer
AEB is developing a new Strategic Vision & Five-Year Plan.
01/15/2021 -
Organic Valley Promotes Three New Vice Presidents
The largest cooperative of dairy farmers has promoted three females to fill the roles. With these promotions, 44% of the upper-level leadership positions are held by women.
01/14/2021 -
Report: Meat Workers' December COVID-19 Cases Five Times Lower Than May Numbers
The North American Meat Institute reports that meat and poultry worker coronavirus cases were five time lower In December than they were in May.
01/13/2021 -
Glen Tellock Retires from Lakeside Foods; Joe Yanda Succeeds
Yanda's grandfather was an investor 100 years ago.
01/12/2021 -
Smithfield Shakes Up the C-Suite
The new CEO of Smithfield Foods is making some extensive changes to the company’s top ranks.
01/08/2021 -
Chobani Names Jody Macedonio New CFO
In naming Macedonio as CFO, Chobani interim CFO Michelle Brooks is taking on the newly created for Chief Business Development Officer.
12/22/2020 -
Wells Enterprises Appoints Gwendolyn Hatten Butler to its Board of Directors
Hatten Butler will be the second female board member and the first African American woman on the board.
12/21/2020 -
Nurtac Ziyal Afridi Made Permanent CEO of Godiva
A longtime Yildiz board member, she has been interim CEO the past two months.
12/17/2020 -
Tyson Fires Managers in Betting Scandal
Tyson Foods has fired seven plant managers who had been accused of betting on how many employees would contract COVID-19.
12/17/2020 -
Heeth Varnedoe Named Chief Transformation Officer for Flowers Foods
Heeth Varnedoe has been promoted to Chief Transformation Officer, a newly created role at the company, effective January 4, 2021.
12/10/2020 -
Danone Expands Gender-Neutral Parental Leave Policy to Include All of Its Employees
Danone North America announced this week that it is expanding its gender-neutral Parental Bonding Leave policy to include all of its employees.
12/03/2020 -
Coca-Cola Shrinking With the Help of CFO John Murphy
The beverage manufacturer is reducing its product portfolio as well as its headcount under Chief Financial Officer John Murphy.
11/30/2020 -
PepsiCo Fills Board Seat, New Medical Slot
PepsiCo has established a new position of chief medical officer and also has named a former CEO of a major British grocer to its board.
11/25/2020 -
Smithfield Foods Commits $300,000 To Support Young Minority Women in STEM
The Virginia-based company announced it would commit $300,000 through 2021 to support STEM Camps Foundation.
11/24/2020 -
FDA To Convene Advisory Committee Meeting December to Discuss COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has scheduled a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee on December 10 to discuss the request for emergency use authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer.
11/23/2020 -
Peter Brown Joins Seaboard Foods as President and CEO
Brown will replace Darwin "Duke" Sand, who will be retiring effective January 1, 2021.
11/20/2020 -
October Marks Sixth Month of Increased Manufacturing Output
Increased production of consumer goods, business equipment, and construction supplies gave the U.S. Manufacturing Output its sixth month in a row of increased growth.
11/17/2020 -
Rizal Hamdallah Moves from Ocean Spray to Clif Bar
The move, effective November 23, cements Hamdallah as Clif Bar's first Chief Innovation Officer.
11/16/2020 -
B&G Foods CEO Quits
The CEO of B&G Foods has resigned, about a year and a half after taking the job.
11/16/2020 -
Coke Executive James Dinkins Joins Monster Beverages Board
Monster Beverages has installed an executive of Coca-Cola on its board, in a move that may smooth out relationships between the two companies.
11/03/2020