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Flowers Foods, Thomasville, GA, elected Allen L. Shiver president of Flowers
Foods effective Jan. 1. George E. Deese will
continue to serve as chairman of the board
and c.e.o.
The company also promoted David
M. Roach to senior vice-president. Mr.
Roach will oversee sales and operations
for a newly created region within the company that includes five Flowers bakeries in
Georgia and Alabama.
Fleischer's Bagels, Inc.,
Macedon, NY, promoted
Eric Kestenblatt to the
newly created position of
senior director, planning/
KESTENBLATT development. Mr. Kestenblatt will be responsible for driving
the company's aggressive lean manufacturing, new product development and
management training initiatives.
Thomas Becker was named director of
operations. Mr. Becker will manage all
day-to-day facets of the Macedon, NY,
facility. He has 30 years of operations
leadership experience.
The Bread Bakers Guild of America, Sonoma, CA, elected Solveig Tofte and Tod
Bramble to the Guild's Board of Directors
for 3-year terms. Ms. Tofte, head baker
at The Turtle Bread Co., represented the
Bread Bakers Guild Team USA 2008 in the
baguette and specialty breads category.
Mr. Bramble is an employee-owner of
King Arthur Flour Co. and national sales
manager for its bakery flour division.
Shelby Weeda, president of King's Hawaiian, Torrance, CA, retired from the company in December. During Mr. Weeda's
30-year tenure, the company's revenue
increased more than $110 million.
Caravan Ingredients, Lenexa, KS, named
Huifen He, PhD, director,
product development center. Dr. He will direct the
activities of bakers, cereal
chemists and food scientists to develop new bakeryHE

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related products for customers as requested
by sales.
The company also named
Bernie Bruinsma director,
special projects and Ryan
Barnett marketing insight
BRUINSMA
coordinator.
Dwight Wagaman has been appointed
vice-president of sales and marketing
for Baker Perkins, Inc.,
Grand Rapids, MI. Mr.
Wagaman will focus on
the business development
of Baker Perkins' products
and capabilities.
WAGAMAN
Vladimir Badmaev, MD, PhD, has
accepted a joint appointment as director of scientific and medical affairs at
Polifenoles Naturales and
P.L. Thomas, Morristown,
NJ. Dr. Badmaev will lead BADMAEV
the new ingredient pipeline development
of the strategic alliance between the two
companies and of other PLT initiatives.
Mallet and Co., Carnegie, PA, hired Mark
Mulberry as sales rep covering the South Central States
and Mexico. Mr. Mulbery
worked for the company for
close to 10 years before taking a 2-year absence.
MULBERRY
Emmi AG, Lucerne, Switzerland, announced new appointments in its US division. While Emmi USA and Roth Käse
USA, Urbandale, IA, will continue to operate as separate legal entities for the foreseeable future, the companies will be governed
by a combined Executive Committee.
Fermo Jaeckle was appointed c.e.o. of
Emmi-Roth Käse USA; Steve McKeon
was appointed president and c.o.o. of
Emmi-Roth Käse USA; Steve Millard was
appointed senior vice-president, sales,
Emmi-Roth Käse USA; Rene Weber was
appointed vice-president of US production and international special projects

of Emmi-Roth Käse; Jim Natzke was
appointed vice-president of operations
of Emmi-Roth Käse USA; Joe Alessio has
been appointed vice-president of finance,
controlling and IT of Emmi-Roth Käse
USA; Jim DeLaurentis will continue in his
role as general manager at Valley Cottage,
NY; and Guido Kälin has been appointed
vice-president of marketing of Emmi.
AarhusKarlshamn AB, Stockholm, Sweden, appointed Arne Frank president and
c.e.o. He will assume this position during
the spring. He is currently the chairman of
the board of Carl Zeiss Vision.
Lantmännen Unibake, Horsens, Denmark, appointed Gustaf Tynelius sustainability
manager. Mr. Tynelius
will be responsible for implementing the company's climate strategy.
Power Engineers, Inc., Hailey, ID, hired
John Brink as senior project manager in
the company's Atlanta, GA, office. Mr.
Brink will focus on building and infrastructure projects for food facilities.
William (Bill) Charles Hurley, PhD,
died Nov. 18. He was 78. Dr. Hurley
was a professor of cereal chemistry at
Kansas State University, Department of
Grain Science and Industry, Manhattan, KS. He was also an industry leader
with the American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC), serving as chairman of the Milling and Baking Division
and as AACC chairman of the board
and president.
In retirement he discovered a new
fascination with computer technology
and served as a board member of the
Lake Country Computer Club, teaching computer technology classes for the
community education department of
the Pequot Lakes School District.
He is survived by his children: Anne
Hurley, Mary Hurley, Judith Mata,
Joann Hautejarvi, Douglas Sexton,
Donna Skoglund, Frank Sexton and
Frances M Steckelberg.

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