AMANDA Jones, a veteran of Waitrose and Marks and Spencer, is now Nisa’s chief operating officer. In the newly-created role she will report directly to CEO Neil Turton and manage the day-to-day business of the symbol group. While at Waitrose she worked on new retail formats and developed extensive experience of fields like shopping behaviour analysis and customer service.
At Allied Bakeries, owner of Kingsmill, Allinson, Burgen and Sunblest, Matt Lee has been appointed sales director. He joined the company at Christmas, from Silverspoon. He will work closely with marketing, operations and supply chain colleagues, and will also join the board.
Bill Mathieson is leaving Coca Cola Enterprises to join Müller Dairy – makers of Müller Corner, Müllerlight and Müller Rice – as commercial director.
He spent five years with CCE, having started his career at Nestlé – in sales and marketing posts across that group. Those included roles in Nestlé’s chilled dairy business, a consumers goods area he will return to with Müller.
