LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.,
March 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAIN), a
leading organic and natural products company with operations in
North America, Europe and India providing consumers with A Healthier Way
of Life™, today announced executive team appointments
reporting to Irwin D. Simon,
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hain Celestial,
effective immediately.
John Carroll, who was previously
Chief Executive Officer, Hain Celestial North America has been
named Executive Vice President, Global Brands, Categories and New
Business Ventures of Hain Celestial with responsibilities including
global branding; new business ventures; mergers and acquisitions;
and the execution of Project Terra, the Company's strategic review
of cost savings, business integration and divestitures. John
will be working with various teams on these corporate initiatives
including stock keeping unit rationalization with Jay W. Erskin, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Hain
Celestial United States, and the Canadian, European and Hain
Pure Protein teams.
Gary W. Tickle has been named
Chief Executive Officer, Hain Celestial North America. Gary
was previously Chief Operating Officer, Hain Celestial United
States having joined the Company in September 2016 after over 20 years in positions
of increasing responsibility at Nestlé Group, most recently as
President and Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé Infant Nutrition
North America. Gary will lead sales, marketing, operations
and research and development as well as have full financial
responsibility for Hain Celestial's United States and Canada operations including the Company's core
strategic platforms for future growth established at the start of
fiscal year 2017 and a multi-year strategic plan for Hain Celestial
North America. The Better-For-You Baby platform will continue to
report to Jamie Fay, Chief Customer
Officer, Hain Celestial United States with the other platform
leaders of Hain Celestial United States reporting to Gary Tickle.
The new strategic Cultivate Ventures ("Cultivate") platform led
by Beena Goldenberg, Chief Executive
Officer, Hain Celestial Canada, will continue to report to
Irwin Simon. Cultivate is
dedicated to investing behind lifestyle brands, smaller portfolio
brands and concepts as well as incubator opportunities, which
should benefit from the larger scale and leverage of Hain
Celestial's infrastructure and entrepreneurial roots.
"A year ago we embarked on Project Terra, a strategic review of
our global business, to allow us to invest more behind our leading
brands and partner with our customers to bring better-for-you food,
beverages and personal care products to more consumers around the
world, unleashing and maximizing the value of our assets.
After working with John Carroll for
over 13 years, I am pleased he will further this initiative and now
will lead our strategy on global brands and new business
development including acquisitions, as his leadership has been a
driving force behind the success of our business in the United States," said Irwin D. Simon, Founder, President and Chief
Executive Officer, Hain Celestial. "In a short period of time
working with us, Gary Tickle has
been instrumental within Hain Celestial United States in creating
teams across the organization to build our new platforms for growth
and develop our go-to-market strategy. Gary is building a
new, strong aligned business process with brands, customers and
channels to win with the consumer, which we expect will provide us
with opportunities for incremental growth and margin improvement."
Irwin Simon added, "Beena
Goldenberg has led Hain Celestial Canada and successfully
grown our business over the last ten years. As we announced
in November, under Beena's leadership, we expect Cultivate to
nurture our high potential brands, with support and focus to help
them thrive."
Irwin Simon concluded, "I believe
we are well-positioned with John, Gary and Beena working directly
with me on significant strategic initiatives and areas of our
business that should extend our leadership position in the organic
and natural, better-for-you products industry."
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.
The Hain
Celestial Group (Nasdaq: HAIN), headquartered in Lake Success, NY, is a leading organic and
natural products company with operations in North America, Europe and India. Hain Celestial
participates in many natural categories with well-known brands that
include Celestial Seasonings®, Earth's Best®, Ella's Kitchen®,
Terra®, Garden of Eatin'®, Sensible Portions®, Health Valley®,
Arrowhead Mills®, MaraNatha®, SunSpire®, DeBoles®, Casbah®, Rudi's
Organic Bakery®, Hain Pure Foods®, Spectrum®, Spectrum Essentials®,
Imagine®, Almond Dream®, Rice Dream®, Soy Dream®, WestSoy®, The
Greek Gods®, BluePrint®, FreeBird®, Plainville Farms®, Empire®,
Kosher Valley®, Yves Veggie Cuisine®, Europe's Best®, Cully & Sully®, New Covent
Garden Soup Co.®, Johnson's Juice Co.®, Farmhouse Fare®,
Hartley's®, Sun-Pat®, Gale's®, Robertson's®, Frank Cooper's®, Linda McCartney®, Lima®,
Danival®, Joya®, Natumi®, GG UniqueFiber®, Tilda®, JASON®, Avalon
Organics®, Alba Botanica®, Live Clean® and Queen Helene®.
Hain Celestial has been providing A Healthier Way of Life™ since
1993. For more information, visit www.hain.com.
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