Kellogg’s parts company with UK MD
THE managing director of Kellogg’s Greater Manchester-based UK operations has left the business.
Greg Peterson, who joined the Trafford Park company in 2007, has gone back to the US to pursue personal interests.
The company said his spell in the UK was due to end in the first half of 2011 and he left the business at the end of February.
He has been replaced on an interim basis by Flemming Sundoe, pictured below, who heads the Kellogg’s business in Germany and Scandanavia.
He is expected to be in Manchester for six months while the company searches for a replacement.
The most recent filed accounts for the US group’s Kellogg Marketing and Sales
Company (UK) division – which reflects income from retail sales – showed turnover rose 6% to £666.7m in the 12 months to January 2010. Pre-tax profits increased by 15% to £9.7m.
The world-famous maker of Cornflakes has a long history in the North West – in 2008 its Trafford Park based manufacturing plant celebrated its 70th anniversary.
Around 350 people are employed in the sales and marketing arm while a further 1,100 work for the manufacturing business, Kellogg Company of Great Britain.
