Hormel Foods announces management changes

Hormel Foods announces management changes

Hormel Foods Corporation has announced the advancement of Donald Kremin to vice president of Wal-Mart sales for Hormel Foods and Brian Johnson to the position of corporate secretary, effective November 1, 2007.

Mr Kremin started with Hormel Foods in 1984 as a sales merchandiser in grocery products in Lenexa, Kansas. He held various sales positions in the Midwest and, in 1990, he was named grocery products district manager in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2004, he became the director of customer development in CPS in Chicago, and in 2005, Mr Kremin was named director of the Wal-Mart business team in Bentonville, Arkansas.

James Cavanaugh, general counsel and senior vice president, Hormel Foods, said: "Brian's experience and background make him eminently qualified to assume the ever-more challenging responsibility of corporate secretary."

Larry Vorpahl, vice president of Hormel Foods and president of consumer products sales (CPS), said: "Don's promotion signifies his excellent customer service capabilities and his leadership in the CPS division." Jeffrey Ettinger, chairman of the board, president and CEO, said: "We also intend to utilize Don's new role to provide assistance at Wal-Mart to our non-CPS business units, including Hormel Foods International."