Baking & Snack - May 2023 - 12

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Crown Bakeries, Nashville, Tenn., named Doug Bame
chief operating officer and Kory Mickelson chief commercial
officer.
Thomas Koppelmann joined Abbottstown, Pa.-based
G&S Foods LLC as vice president of sales.
Parra
Holger Kraetschmer joined Los Angeles-based King's
Hawaiian as chief marketing officer.
Seth Cox was named director of baking at Mile Hi
Baking, Denver.
TruFood Manufacturing, Pittsburgh, hired Justin
Lenox as vice president of sales and marketing.
Tania Moreira Parra joined AAK, Edison, NJ, as senior
account manager of the Western region sales team.
Toronto-based ABI Ltd. named Alyson Slapkauskas as
chief executive officer.
AMF Bakery Systems, Richmond, Va., promoted
Adrian Dee to the position of Americas sales director.
Keith Adams was promoted to executive vice president
of core wheat milling at Bay State Milling Co., Quincy,
Mass.
CRB, Kansas City, Mo., named President Ryan
Schroeder as chief executive officer.
Cranbury, NJ-based Innophos named Tyler Lee as
senior scientist, bakery innovation.
Joseph Summers joined Des Moines, Iowa-based
Kemin Food Technologies, North America as technical
sales manager.
Summers
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JLS Automation, York, Pa., a
provider of custom vision-guided
robotic solutions for the food
packaging industry, acquired K2
Kinetics, also based in York.
Tralee, Ireland-based Kerry
Group PLC opened its Southern
Europe Innovation Centre in
Barcelona, Spain.
Lee
Adams
Vevey, Switzerland-based Nestle
SA closed its pizza production
plant in Caudry, France.
Schroeder
Patagonia Provisions, Sausalito,
Calif., the food and beverage division
of Patagonia, acquired San
Francisco-based Moonshot, a
Plant Forward Inc. snack brand.
AAK, Malmo, Sweden, created an
Innovation Center of Excellence to
develop plant-based foods close to
its Zaandijk production facilities
in the Netherlands.
Dee
Great Kitchens Food Co.,
Romeoville, Ill., acquired frozen
pizza company Uno Foods, a
division of Boston-based Uno
Restaurant Holdings Corp.
Slapkauskas
Koppelmann
Dr. August Oetker KG, Bielefeld,
Germany, acquired Galileo
Lebensmittel KG, a Trierweiler,
Germany-based maker of frozen
pizza snacks.
Frito-Lay and Quaker partnered
to open a Greenhouse Learning
Center located at parent company
PepsiCo.'s R&D headquarters in
Plano, Texas.
Abbottstown, Pa.-based G&S
Foods LLC, a co-packer and private
label manufacturer of snacks,
broke ground on a 348,344-squarefoot
snack food manufacturing
plant in Hanover, Pa.

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