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Names in the News
Jacqueline Heslop McCook has
joined ConAgra Foods, Omaha, Neb.,
as chief growth officer and executive
vice president, international. In this
role, she will oversee
the company's strategy for growth as well
as the marketing and
international business
opportunities.
McCook
In other news, King
Pouw joined ConAgra
as senior vice president, business transformation. Pouw will
work with the company's executive vice
president and chief
Pouw
administrative officer
to develop cost-effective processes to
support streamlined organizational
structures and approaches.
The Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, a
charitable foundation managed by the
Perdue family, recently gave an $8 million gift to Salisbury University. The
university will use the money to help
build a new $45 million home for its

Franklin P. Perdue School of Business.
Arthur W. Perdue founded what became Perdue, Inc. in 1920.
Tyson Foods, Inc.,
Springdale, Ark., has
named Wade Miquelon executive vice
president and C.F.O.
His job will include
representing Tyson
Miquelon
Foods on financial
matters with investors, auditors and
financial regulatory entities, and he
will report directly to John Tyson,
chairman and C.E.O. He will join the
company in June.
Miquelon's career spans more than
16 years at The Procter & Gamble
Co. Currently, he is finance chief and
general manager for P&G's Western Europe region based in Geneva,
Switzerland, with financial oversight
of 17 countries representing roughly
25 percent of P&G's worldwide sales.
His responsibilities also have included
financial oversight of the integration
of Gillette's circa $4 billion Western
European business.

Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg,
Texas, has hired John Southerland
as vice president of quality assurance
for its prepared foods division. He
has 24 years of industry experience
in quality assurance, food safety,
laboratory testing, auditing and management. Southerland most recently
served as director of food safety and
quality for Tyson Prepared Foods in
Fort Worth, Texas. Before that, he
was vice president of food safety
for KPR Foods, a division of Tyson
Foods, Inc., and quality assurance
manager for Flagstar Corp., the parent company of Denny's.
Devault Foods, Devault, Pa., announced that Quality Sales & Marketing, Cornelius, N.C., will serve as
its regional broker of record for North
and South Carolina. Based in the Carolinas for more than 30 years, Quality
Sales & Marketing targets broadline
foodservice distributors. The company is responsible for creating and
developing key relationships throughout these states on behalf of Devault
Foods' product line.

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