European retail giant Delhaize this week named its new CEO – ex-Metro executive Frans Muller – but his appointment, combined with the departure of its US boss, hit the company’s shares. In the US, Mondelez International gave more detail on its plans to shake up its plant network and use fewer suppliers. And an investor in Smithfield Foods insisted it had received interest from rival suitors for the US pork giant that could be better value than the current agreed takeover bid from China’s Shuanghui International.
Talking shop: Delhaize CEO appointment brings uncertainty
Shares in Belgian retailer Delhaize Group slid as investors responded to the appointment of former Metro Group executive Frans Muller as CEO. While Muller has extensive retail experience, he comes to Delhaize from Metro’s cash-and-carry arm and, significantly, has no experience of operating in Delhaize’s largest market, the US, a fact underlined by the news the boss of the retailer’s business Stateside plans to step down.
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