UK-based snacking heavyweight Pladis has announced CEO Salman Amin has left the business with immediate effect.
In a brief statement, the McVitie’s biscuits manufacturer, owned by Turkish conglomerate Yildiz Holding, said Amin has left for “personal reasons”.
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It added: “We can confirm Sridhar Ramamurthy, chief financial officer, and Tim Brett, managing director Europe and developing markets, have assumed temporary oversight of Pladis.”
Amin was appointed as CEO of Pladis in early 2019. Before joining Pladis, Amin’s most recent role was as global chief operating officer in the global commercial division at US conglomerate SC Johnson & Son, which specialises in household cleaning products. Piror to that, Amin was PepsiCo’s chief marketing officer.
At Pladis, Amin was accountable for all the categories and geographies of the company, including Europe, the US and the Far East.
Just Food has asked the company for further details of Amin’s departure and the search for a replacement CEO.
Pladis has products across the sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake and chocolate categories. It also owns the brands Godiva, Jacob’s, Carr’s and Go Ahead.
The company has a 16,000-strong global workforce spanning 27 bakeries across 11 countries.
In September, Pladis revealed plans for expansion in the Middle East, North Africa and India via the opening of a new regional headquarters in Saudi Arabia.
