Real Good Food boosts top team
REAL Good Food, the listed ingredients, sugar and bakery supplier, has announced a clutch of senior executive appointments.
The Liverpool comapny has hired new managing directors of its Napier Brown and R & W Scott subsidiaries and also boosted its strategic executive with two new appointments.
Jon Tanner has become MD of sugar distribution unit Napier Brown. Reporting directly to executive chairman Pieter Totté, he will assume responsibility for all functions within the business, as well as continuing to oversee all commercial activity on a day-to-day basis.
Mr Tanner joined Real Good Food in March 2011 as sales director of Napier Brown.
He joined RHM in 1999 and held several senior commercial roles in British Bakeries, Rank Hovis and McDougall’s Foods before being appointed sales and marketing director of Rank Hovis, the UK’s leading flour miller, in 2003.
In 2008, he joined Calor Gas as Sales and Marketing Director and delivered a complete re-positioning of the Calor brand and successive years of sales and profit growth.
[AuthorRecommendedPosts]At bajery ingredient supplier R & W Scott, John Easton has becomes MD with immediate effect and takes over responsibility for all business functions at the Carluke plant in Scotland.
At executive board level David Wright has become group operations director and Andrew Brown group brand and marketing director and, as well as continuing to build on his work in revitalising the Whitworths brand in sugar, will provide strategic direction for our plans to leverage the Renshaw and R&W Scott brands.
Executive chairman Pieter Totté, said: “I am confident that Jon’s appointment will enable Napier Brown to build on recent success at what is an exciting time in our development of both the Whitworths brand and broader strategic initiatives across the Group.
“I also have great hopes for our development of the R & W Scott business and feel sure that under John Easton’s management it will continue to make good progress as we re-establish its unique identity within the market place.
“In addition to these appointments, I am delighted that both David Wright’s and Andrew Brown’s skills and experience in operations and marketing respectively will now be utilised across the Group.”
