Findus Group Announces Major Category Appointments

Findus Group, one of Europe's largest food groups, has made three significant category appointments in its Marketing division, reports www.megafishnet.com with reference to Findus Group.

Stephen Taylor has joined the business to head up its ‘Fish' category. Stephen has joined Findus Group from P&G where he worked on Gillette and other personal care brands.

Toni Attwood has joined to lead the food giants ‘Ready Meals' category. Toni's career has been spent in consumer marketing and category management, most recently at P&G's where she worked in its Oral Care and Male Grooming teams.

Dr Clare Leonard joins the Group as Nutrition Director. Leonard was previously heading the nutrition teams at Nestle breakfast cereals. Prior to this, she held senior positions at Unilever, in its global beverages category.

Leendert Den Hollander, Chief Marketing Officer at Findus Group comments, "These are significant news hires for the business. The appointment of both Stephen and Toni is an important step in establishing the new category structure across the company. They will be leading multi-functional teams with representation from all countries to deliver a category vision, its strategy and how it will be delivered through branding and innovation."

"The appointment of Clare signals our ambition to turn nutrition into a sustainable competitive advantage for our business. She will be leading the definition of our nutrition agenda for the future."

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About Findus Group
Findus Group is one of Europe's largest food groups, specialising in branded frozen food and own-label chilled and frozen seafood. Findus Group employs has more than 6,000 people across Europe through eight principal businesses: Youngs Seafood, The Seafood Company and the Findus brand in the UK, Sweden, Norway, France, Finland, Slovakia, Czech Republic.