Foodvest appoints new Chief Executive and renames company Findus Group

Per joined Findus five years ago and was instrumental in the merger of Findus and Young’s Seafood which created Foodvest, one of the largest frozen food and chilled seafood companies in Europe. In parallel, the Company is announcing it will be changing its group name to “Findus Group”, consisting of Young’s, The Seafood Company and Findus businesses. In a statement the company said: “All of these changes mark a new phase of future development for the business, whereby the Findus Group will focus on greater synergy between the operating companies and fully intend to maximise the organic growth of its company brands.” Succeeding Per as the new Chief Executive as of June 1st will be Chris Britton. Chris has been in the consumer goods industry for 25 years generating substantial profitable growth across a number of highly regarded, multi-national businesses. Until recently, Chris was an Executive Board Member and President of the Euro 1.7 billion Baby Food Division of Royal Numico – the Netherlands based publicly listed multi-national infant and clinical nutrition group, which was acquired by Danone for Euro 12.3 billion in November 2007.. Commenting on his appointment, Chris Britton said: “This is an opportunity which I simply couldn’t turn down. Foodvest has a brilliant team, who I look forward to working closely with. I have an absolute passion for consumer brands and driving profitable growth.” Commenting on Per Harkjaer’s work, Chris added: “Per has achieved a great deal at Foodvest and I want to build on the solid platform he has created.”