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Williams to lead Frito-Lay and
Quaker Foods units at PepsiCo
PURCHASE, N.Y. - Steven Williams
has been promoted to chief executive officer of PepsiCo Foods North America,
which includes Frito-Lay North America and Quaker Foods North America.
He succeeds Vivek Sankaran, who will
leave PepsiCo, Inc. on April 12 to become president and c.e.o. of Albertsons
Companies, Inc.
Mr. Williams was most recently senior vice-president and chief commercial

officer for Frito-Lay's U.S. operations.
Previously, he was division vice-president for the Eastern division of FritoLay, the global senior
vice-president of PepsiCo's Walmart business
and the head of sales for
various PepsiCo food and
beverage brands, including Gatorade, Tropicana
and Quaker. Mr. Williams Williams

McLoughlin to succeed Vinney as
Campbell Soup chairman of board
CAMDEN, N.J. - Keith R. McLoughlin
has been elected chairman of Campbell
Soup Co. by the company's board of directors. He succeeds Les C. Vinney, who has
announced his intent to retire on April 15.
Mr. McLoughlin has been a director on
Campbell Soup's board since 2015 and
most recently was interim president and
chief executive officer from May 2018 to
January 2019. He stepped down from the
interim role in January when Mark A.
Clouse was named president and c.e.o.

JB Cocoa fills technical
sales director post
NEW YORK - Dan Kazmierczak has
been named technical sales director at JB
Cocoa. In his new role he will be responsible for the company's cocoa ingredient
products, including a full spectrum of cocoa powders, cocoa liquor and cocoa butter.
Mr. Kazmierczak has 18 years of experience in the food industry, most recently
working in research and development at
Barchemy, L.L.C. Earlier, he worked in technical applications at Nestle USA. Prior to
Nestle he was director of application and
technical services - compounds and fillings
at Barry Callebaut, and he also has worked
as R.&D. manager at Blommer Chocolate
Co. and systems planning and control specialist at Schulze and Burch Biscuit Co.
He received both a bachelor's degree
and master's degree in manufacturing
technology from the Illinois Institute of
Technology.
Founded in the 1980s, JB Foods (JB Cocoa) is a cocoa ingredients producer with
capacity of 145,000 tonnes of cocoa bean
equivalent per year. The company produces cocoa powder, cocoa butter, cocoa liquor and cocoa cake, and supplies to over
50 countries worldwide. MBN
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Before joining Campbell Soup's board,
Mr. McLoughlin was president and c.e.o. of AB Electrolux and spent more than
20 years in leadership roles
at E.I. duPont de Nemours
and Co.
Mr. Vinney has been
chairman since 2015.
McLoughlin

joined PepsiCo in 2001 as part of the company's acquisition of the Quaker Oats
Co., which he joined in 1997.
"Steven is the ideal leader for our
North America food businesses, and his
appointment is a testament to our strong
bench of talent," said Ramon Laguarta,
chairman and c.e.o. of PepsiCo. "He has
deep knowledge of the industry and our
business, and we will greatly benefit
from his inspirational leadership, broad
customer knowledge, intimacy with consumer trends and experience developing
talent as we build on our already strong
foundation." MBN
Campbell Soup also announced that J.P.
Bilbrey has been appointed to the board,
effective in May. Mr. Bilbrey was president and c.e.o. of The Hershey Co. from
2011 to 2017 and chairman of Hershey's
board from 2015 to 2018. Prior to Hershey
he held senior leadership roles at Mission
Foods, Danone Waters of North America,
Inc. and The Procter & Gamble Co.
Sara Mathew, a member of the board
since 2005, will retire from the board. She
has served as chair of the audit committee during her tenure. MBN

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