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UTZ CERTIFIED APPOINTS NEW
NEWMAN JOINS
BOYD COFFEE AS
March 2010
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Han de Groot has been
appointed Executive Director
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Han de Groot has been appointed Executive Director of UTZ CERTIFIED
of UTZ CERTIFIED Boyd Coffee Company in the US has appointed
Previously, Mr de Groot previously worked at the Jeffrey Newman as the company's President and
Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food as a CEO. Brothers David Boyd and Dick Boyd will
Deputy Director of the Nature Department. remain as owners and co-Chairmen.
Before working for the Dutch government, he "We see this as the ideal time for this historic
worked for Oxfam-Novib, where he spent most of his transition," said David Boyd. "Boyd Coffee
time co-ordinating the work of the organisation in Company's business is poised for future growth,
East and Southern Africa. Mr de Groot studied devel- and this is an excellent opportunity to bring in a new
opment and agricultural economics at the University of Wageningen in The corporate leader with the perspective and experience
Netherlands. to continue preparing the Boyd family's fourth gen-
eration to assume future company leadership."
NEW APPOINTMENTS AT BLOMMER
Jeffrey Newman comes to Boyd Coffee Company
CHOCOLATE COMPANY
with more than 26 years of experience in the food-
service industry, most recently as the chief operat-
Marlene Stauffer
Blommer Chocolate Company has announced ing officer/vice president and general manager of
has been that Shane Benedict has joined Blommer Columbus Distributing LLC in San Francisco, a fami-
appointed
Chocolate Company as Corporate Director ly-owned purveyor of fine foods and distributor of
Director,
Quality
Research and Development. He will be located many other specialty and gourmet foods.
Assurance &
in East Greenville and have company-wide
Regulatory
Compliance
responsibility for R&D and quality assurance.
KEY TECHNOLOGY
at Blommer The company has also announced that
Chocolate Company
Marlene Stauffer has been appointed Director,
APPOINTS AREA SALES
Quality Assurance & Regulatory Compliance. In this expanded role Stauffer will pro-
MANAGER FOR FRANCE
vide corporate guidance and recommendations to senior management, quality
assurance and R&D teams on regulatory issues affecting food related industries. Key Technology has
Chris Milligan has been promoted to Operations Manager, East Greenville. With announced the appointment
this expanded role Milligan will assume additional management responsibility for of Patrick Marmet as Area
sanitation and plant QA functions. Sales Manager for France.
Mr Marmet is responsible
JOE BLOMMER DIES AGED 67
for bringing Key’s automat-
ed inspection and sorting
systems, specialized con-
Blommer Chocolate Company in the US has announced that Joe Blommer, President and veying, and processing
Key Technology has
CEO, died on 20 January 2010 at his home in River Hill, Wisconsin. equipment to customers
announced the appointment of
In a career spanning more than 35 years, Mr Blommer helped lead the family owned throughout France that
Patrick Marmet as Area Sales
Manager for France
and run company through a period of sustained growth and change. Today, Blommer process and package food
Chocolate Company is North America’s largest cocoa bean processor and ingredient products such as fresh and processed fruits and
chocolate products company. vegetables, potatoes, nuts, snacks, meats, and cof-
Mr Blommer first joined the company founded by his father and uncles following fee, as well as other industrial products such as
graduation from Georgetown University in 1964. He left after several years to pursue an chemicals, plastics, and paper.
investment sales career at Smith Barney in Milwaukee, before returning to Blommer in "Patrick is a strong addition to the Key
1976. Technology team. With several years of experience
Among his many accomplishments, Mr Blommer was responsible for construction of selling high quality equipment to food processing
the company’s East Greenville, Pennsylvania plant in 1980. The facility was the first companies in France, he already knows many of
chocolate factory to be built in the US in many years. Key’s customers," noted Andreas Hofman, Sales
Along with his brother, Henry Blommer, he helped the company navigate through a Director of Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Key
takeover attempt by Cargill in 1992 and a subsequent returned the company to family Technology BV.
control in 1995. Under his leadership, the company delivered an enviable record of sus- Mr Marmet brings more than 20 years of experi-
tained, profitable growth, becoming one of the largest cocoa processors in the world. ence selling industrial equipment, including 10
"My dad was such a special man," said Rick Blommer. "He loved his job. He loved years selling packaging machinery to the food pro-
making chocolate. Everyone who knew him, both in our company and in our industry, cessing industry, to his position at Key. Most recent-
held him in such high regard. He had an incredibly entrepreneurial mind. He could see ly, he was an Area Sales Manager for TNA Europe.
his way through any problem we faced and always seemed to know the right thing to Prior to that, he was a Sales Manager for Bosch
do. All of us at Blommer will miss him." Packaging. Previously, he was a Sales Engineer for
Shuttleworth Europe.
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