Uk Snacks Group Tayto Names New Ceo

Tayto appoints ex-Yodel leader Mike Hancox arsenic CEO. Credit: Tayto

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

Hancox. astir precocious nan main executive of transportation group Yodel, will win Fergal McCann from 1 January.

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McCann will discontinue aft 13 years astatine Tayto Group, first arsenic a finance head and later arsenic main executive.

Hancox said: “I americium excited to beryllium joining Tayto Group and helping to unlock nan imaginable of its products and brands. Tayto is simply a successful business pinch a very coagulated guidelines connected which to grow, and I can’t hold to get started.”

Tayto Group, headquartered successful Corby successful nan English Midlands, focuses connected crisps, popcorn and salted pork snacks, including brands specified arsenic Tayto and Golden Wonder. It besides has own-label contracts pinch “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, executive chairman, thanked McCann for his “substantial contribution” to nan business’s “growth and occurrence complete nan past 13 years”.

“We wish him good successful his retirement,” he said. “I’m delighted to invited Mike to Tayto, bringing pinch him a wealthiness of acquisition starring akin businesses to present outstanding results. We look guardant to him joining nan business and building connected nan beardown foundations that we person successful place.”