Saudi food group Almarai has appointed COO Georges Schorderet as its new chief executive.

Previous CEO Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Fadley resigned last week after being named Saudi Arabia’s new agriculture minister.

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Schorderet joined Almarai in 2004 as the dairy-to-bakery group’s CFO. He became COO in 2011.

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