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Fonterra welcomes appointment of new Beingmate GM

Fonterra welcomes appointment of new
Beingmate baby & child food General Manager

Fonterra welcomes the appointment of Bao Xiufei (Bob) to the role of General Manager of Beingmate Baby & Child Food Co Ltd. The move was announced yesterday and follows a comprehensive search.

Mr Bao joins Beingmate from Royal FrieslandCampina China, where he had a successful career, including most recently, as Friso Chief Sales Officer (CSO) and Consumer Dairy Managing Director. Prior to this, he was the Sales Director at Wyeth Nutrition and held senior roles at PepsiCo and Wahaha Food Group.

Fonterra CEO Theo Spierings says the appointment signals an important step in the transformation of Beingmate.

“We know our farmers and unit holders expect a lift in in Beingmate’s performance, so influencing the right transformation steps through our 18% shareholding has been one of our top priorities. The appointment of a new and independent GM is the first of three key steps we communicated earlier this year in the Beingmate transformation plan. Now this appointment is made, the next priorities will be for Mr Bao to unlock Beingmate’s distribution network and take the right actions to meet Chinese customers’ preferences for e-commerce.”

“There are a number of opportunities to reverse Beingmate’s current performance and we look forward to working with Mr Bao and seeing Beingmate fulfil its potential,” says Mr Spierings.

China is an important, strategic dairy market and the Fonterra Greater China business continues to perform well overall, returning $3.4 billion in sales revenue last year.

ENDS


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