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Join Us at the 2014 GMA/FMI Events

Solving the Consumer Goods Executive Talent Conundrum

Sponsored by Hunt Executive Search/The Hunt Group, Inc. Saturday, January 11 at the Phoenician Joseph B. Hunt, Managing Partner/Director, Hunt Executive Search/The Hunt Group Sandy Douglas, SVP Global Chief Customer Officer & President of North America, Coca-Cola Bryan Hancock, Organization and Human Capital Management Partner, McKinsey & Company Apu Mody, President, Mars Foods Jack Sinclair, EVP Grocery, Wal-Mart

For CPG manufacturers and retailers around the globe, human capital processes are failing to keep pace with a changing business environment. This session will focus on understanding and addressing two of the biggest challenges: Organizational Capability Gap -- due to consumer trends, technological developments, and ever increasing global scale, the mix of specialized and general management capabilities that consumer companies need to compete and win continues to change. Attracting Scarce Leadership Talent -- the associated roles are ever more challenging to fill as functional experts and general managers are drawn to other industries, and local competitors are fighting global players fiercely for management talent. The good news? Some of the most recognized and respected companies in the world are challenging these dynamics. Moderator Joe Hunt will engage a panel of the industry's best on how they innovate to identify, attract, develop and retain the best people and solve their executive talent conundrum. Read More...

GMA/FMI Supply Chain Conference - General Session - Attracting Supply Chain Talent Panel Discussion
This event will be held Tuesday, Feb. 18 - 8 a.m., at Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista in Orlando, Florida. As the talent pool tightens across all CPG and grocery functional areas, supply chain professionals will increasingly work with academia to ensure that educators are meeting their needs and that their supply chain workplace is attractive to top talent. This session features dialogue on emerging supply chain talent issues. Moderator: Joe Hunt. Read More...

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Featured Article

MONTHLY MENTOR: Solving the Consumer Goods Executive Talent Conundrum
This is the first Monthly Mentor article in our 2014 Enterprise GPS series. Each month we'll break down a significant aspect of our system and share Level by Level mission critical performance standards and competencies that will help you benchmark, identify, select, onboard, develop and/or performance manage any and all key leadership positions within your domestic or global organization. Read More...

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People on the Move

Avon elects Sara Mathew to Board of Directors. More...

Cal-Maine Foods appoints VP, Controller and CAO. More...

Sheila Stanziale joins Hain Celestial as President & GM. More...

Campbell Soup appoints head of Greater China and Far East. More...

Director M. Anthony Burns steps down from Pfizer. More...

ChromaDex appoints former Nestle executive to its Board of Directors. More...

James Wagner named Roland CEO. More...

Teva near to naming Vigodman as CEO. More...

Looney named CFO of PartyLite. More...

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Industry News

Reily Foods Buys New England Tea & Coffee
US-based Reily Foods has acquired New England Tea & Coffee Company, for an undisclosed amount, in a move to boost coffee distribution in the country. Read more...

Mondelez to Sell Majority Interest in SnackWell's
Mondelez sells a controlling interest in its SnackWell's cookie and cracker business to a PE firm that specializes in revitalizing big companies' faded brands. Read more...

Nestle to Sell U.S. Frozen Pasta Business
Nestle sells Joseph's Pasta to PE firm Brynwood Partners VII LP. Read more...

Coty Acquires OPI's UK Distributor
Coty has acquired Lena White Ltd., the largest international distributor of OPI, one of Coty's power brands. Read more...

Godiva Owner to Buy DeMet's Candy
The Turkish owner of Godiva is bulking up in the confection business with a deal to acquire DeMet's Candy, the U.S. maker of Flipz chocolate pretzels and Turtles covered nut clusters. The price was $221 million. Read more...

Boulder Brands Acquires Phil's Fresh
Boulder Brands has purchased EVOL Foods parent Phil's Fresh for $48 million. EVOL manufactures clean-label frozen food such as burritos, quesadillas, bowls and skillet meals. Read more...

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Featured Searches

For a multitude of reasons, we don't publicly post ~90% of our current searches. Please visit our LinkedIn company page to view updated sampling of our current searches in General Management, Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain/Manufacturing and Technical functional vertical leadership opportunities.