ConAgra Foods has promoted from within and appointed Paul Maass to head its commercial-foods unit – a B2B operation that accounts for a over a third of the group’s turnover.

Maass, the head of the ConAgra Mills unit within the B2B arm, has become president of the company’s commercial-foods business immediately. He replaces Rob Sharpe, who plans to retire from ConAgra at the end of its fiscal year, which ends in May.

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Bill Stoufer, vice president of supply chain for ConAgra Mills, takes over as president of the unit.

The most recent financial results for ConAgra’s commercial-foods business were published last month. For the company’s first quarter to 29 August, sales from the B2B unit fell 3% to US$993m. Operating profit was down 17% at $112m. ConAgra blamed the impact of “last year’s poor-quality potato crop”.

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