UK snacks group Tayto names new CEO

UK savoury snacks shaper Tayto Group has appointed Mike Hancox arsenic its caller CEO.

Hancox. astir precocious the main enforcement of transportation radical Yodel, volition win Fergal McCann from 1 January.

McCann volition discontinue aft 13 years astatine Tayto Group, archetypal arsenic a concern manager and aboriginal arsenic main executive.

Hancox said: “I americium excited to beryllium joining Tayto Group and helping to unlock the imaginable of its products and brands. Tayto is simply a palmy concern with a precise coagulated basal connected which to grow, and I can’t hold to get started.”

Tayto Group, headquartered successful Corby successful the English Midlands, focuses connected crisps, popcorn and salted pork snacks, including brands specified arsenic Tayto and Golden Wonder. It besides has own-label contracts with “Britain’s starring supermarkets”.

The company, founded successful 1956, has astir 1,600 employees. According to its website, it manufactures successful 5 locations, 4 successful England and 1 successful Northern Ireland.

Stephen Hutchinson, enforcement chairman, thanked McCann for his “substantial contribution” to the business’s “growth and occurrence implicit the past 13 years”.

"We privation him good successful his retirement,” helium said. “I’m delighted to invited Mike to Tayto, bringing with him a wealthiness of acquisition starring akin businesses to present outstanding results. We look guardant to him joining the concern and gathering connected the beardown foundations that we person successful place.”

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