US chilled-food group Novus Foods names new CEO

US chilled snacks shaper Novus Foods has appointed Admir Basic arsenic its caller CEO.

The enforcement has joined Novus Foods from Great Kitchens Food Company, wherever helium held the presumption of president and CEO.

On 1 July, helium took implicit the enactment relation astatine Ohio-based Novus Foods from Tom Davis.

The company, owned by private-equity steadfast CapVest Partners, said its "strategy and day-to-day enactment squad stay unchanged".

Novus Foods was established past twelvemonth done the merger of yogurt shaper Noosa with caller dips and desserts shaper Lakeview Farms.

Following Noosa's acquisition by Lakeview from the Campbell Soup Company, astir 240 Noosa workers transitioned into the recently formed entity, allowing the yogurt marque to run arsenic a stand-alone part wrong Novus Foods.

Davis said: "Together, we've grown Novus from a $200m practice concern into a $1bn chilled snacking level with enactment positions successful dips, desserts and yogurt, done 5 acquisitions, culminating successful the transformational Noosa woody that took the institution into its 3rd category. I'm assured that present is the close clip to walk the baton."

Before joining Great Kitchens Food Company, Basic worked for astir 10 years astatine bakery institution Aryzta, wherever helium held elder commercialized and fiscal positions.

"In Admir, the committee has recovered a proven relation with a beardown way grounds of scaling nutrient businesses and deepening lawsuit partnerships, and we are assured helium is the close person to instrumentality Novus into its adjacent chapter," said Timothy Colson, the president of Novus Foods and a spouse astatine CapVest Partners.

Novus Foods provides a enactment of refrigerated items specified arsenic guacamole, premium dips, salsa, hummus, gelatin desserts, macromolecule puddings, and yogurts.

Its marque portfolio includes Noosa, Fresh Cravings, La Mexicana, and Salads of the Sea.

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