The Berkeley, California-based specialty coffee roaster and marketer Peet’s Coffee & Tea, has been appointed Jim Grimes as VP, operations.
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Grimes brings to this position more than 20 years of strategic operational management experience within the packaged foods industry. He has an extensive track record improving capacity utilization, operating efficiencies and quality.
“Jim is a seasoned operations professional whose talents will be invaluable to us as we continue to successfully execute our multiple channel growth strategy,” said Patrick O’Dea, president and CEO.
Prior to joining Peet’s, Grimes was the senior VP, strategic planning operations for Parmalat’s Bakery Division in the US where he successfully streamlined the operations of two newly combined business divisions, improved plant capacity utilization and significantly reduced annual operational costs. From 1989 through 2000, Grimes was employed by Archway/Mother’s Cookies as senior VP, operations where he was responsible for the entire product supply chain including purchasing, distribution, production, manufacturing, quality assurance and safety. Grimes also held various production and product development positions with Frito Lay and Procter & Gamble.
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