| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Darrell Riekena |
Chief Operating Officer | Profile |
As the leading nutrition, health and wellness company, we are committed to enhancing people`s lives, everywhere, every day. We strive to make our brands tastier and healthier choices that help consumers care for themselves and their families, thus earning their trust and recommendations to others. Delivering on this commitment enables us to create long-term sustainable value for our consumers and customers, for our communities, for our shareholders and for our employees. We believe that leadership is about behaviour, and we recognise that trust is earned over a long period of time by consistently delivering on our promises. Nestlé believes that it is only possible to create long-term sustainable value for our shareholders if our behaviour, strategies and operations also create value for the communities where we operate, for our business partners, our employees and of course, for our consumers. We call this `creating shared value`. Nestlé can trace its origins back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world`s first prepared infant cereals `Farine lactée` in Vevey, Switzerland. Today, with our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of CHF 91.6 bn. in 2014. We employ over 330,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world.
MycoTechnology is a food ingredient company focused on moving food forward by infusing human ingenuity with the intelligence of nature. Harnessing the power of mushrooms, MycoTechnology is able to solve some of the most pervasive challenges in the food and beverage industry.
RUNA was founded in 2009, days after we graduated from college. But our story begins several years earlier, when Tyler was living with the Kichwa people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It was then he was introduced to guayusa – a naturally caffeinated tree leaf brewed like tea, consumed early in the morning to help interpret dreams and late at night to provide energy and clarity while hunting in the jungle. He loved the earthy flavor, smooth taste, and energy boost he got from the leaf. Living and working in Latin and South America, we both saw how unsustainable activities like logging were enticing ways for people living in the rainforest to pay for education and medicine. We also saw how development projects implemented by NGOs often floundered because they lacked buy-in from local stakeholders.
Compass Group plc is a British multinational contract foodservice company headquartered in Chertsey, England.
Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO), with 2015 sales of $3.8 billion, is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods for retail and foodservice customers in the U.S. The company`s 49 highly efficient bakeries produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries, and tortillas. Approximately 85 percent of the U.S. population has access to the company`s fresh bakery foods through a network of independent distributors serving the East, South, and Southwest. Flowers` frozen bakery items and snack cakes are delivered to customers` warehouses nationwide. Flowers` top brands include Nature`s Own, Whitewheat, Wonder Bread, Dave`s Killer Bread, Cobblestone Bread Company, Tastykake, Mrs. Freshley`s, European Bakers, BlueBird, and Mi Casa and regional brands that include Merita, Home Pride, Butternut, Country Kitchen, Barowsky`s Organics, ButterKrust, Captain John Derst`s, Evangeline Maid, Sunbeam, Bunny, Mary Jane, Aunt Hattie`s, and Holsum, and Mary Jane & Friends.