Antony to Lead Neptune's Brand Retail
Strategy, Leveraging More Than 30 Year Track Record at Unilever of
Award-Winning Sales and Business Development
LAVAL, QC, March 2, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ - Neptune
Wellness Solutions Inc. ("Neptune" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NEPT)
(TSX: NEPT), is pleased to announce today the appointment of
Scott Antony as Senior Vice
President of U.S. Retail Sales.
With a more than 30 year track record of award-winning sales and
business development, Mr. Antony will lead Neptune's brand retail
strategy to expand retail distribution and increase sales of the
Company's consumer-facing Forest Remedies™ and Ocean Remedies™
brands, as well as future Neptune consumer brands.
Mr. Antony joins Neptune from Unilever North America where he
has held a variety of senior leadership positions since joining the
company in 1986. Throughout his career at Unilever, Mr. Antony
led the company's most profitable businesses, consistently
outperforming competitors, surpassing targets, and achieving
multi-million-dollar gains while attaining significant market
growth.
Most recently, Mr. Antony served as VP of Sales for Unilever's
Target Division, where he developed and managed the company's
Target relationship, one of Unilever's largest and most strategic
customers in North America. In this role, Mr. Antony led a
complete business turnaround doubling Unilever's sales with Target
while achieving continuous market share growth. Prior, Mr.
Antony led Unilever's Safeway Division, where he established a
sales team from the ground up and supervised, trained, and mentored
a team of 25 top performers responsible for sales, supply chain,
shopper marketing, business development, category management,
digital and e-commerce, category insights and customer service. At
Unilever, Mr. Antony also held the positions of Director of Sales
Strategy & Operations, Director of Business Development and
Director of Sales Strategy & Integration.
"Scott is an ideal fit for Neptune as we continue to progress in
our vision to become a leading player in CPG health and wellness
products focused on personal care and home care, including but not
limited to hemp derived products for household cleaning," said
Michael Cammarata, Chief Executive
Officer of Neptune Wellness Solutions. "I worked closely with Scott
while at Unilever and can attest to his demonstrated success in
forging strategic and lucrative customer relationships, managing
multi-million-dollar P&Ls, executing M&A transactions, and
driving business growth. We look forward to leveraging his
expertise and relationships as we develop consumer brands that
build on our decades of experience in the natural products
sector."
"I am delighted to join Neptune and team back up with
Michael to drive retail expansion and growth of the Forest Remedies
and Ocean Remedies brands," said Antony. "Retailers are
increasingly looking for innovative and sustainable products to
drive traffic and Neptune is well positioned to meet their needs
and grow its portfolio of CPG health and wellness products with a
purpose."
While at Unilever, Mr. Antony received multiple awards for his
contribution to the company's growth, including Division Vendor of
the Year (3 years in a row), Best in Class Shopper Team, Category
Management Team of the Year, Collaboration Award, and he was the
1st ever recipient of Enterprise Strategic Partner Award.
Mr. Antony holds a BA in Marketing & Sales from the
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.
About Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc.
Neptune
Wellness Solutions specializes in the extraction, purification and
formulation of health and wellness products. The Company has in
excess of 100 customers across several verticals including legal
cannabis and hemp, nutraceutical and consumer packaged goods.
Neptune's wholly owned subsidiary, 9354-7537 Québec Inc., is
licensed by Health Canada to process cannabis at its
50,000-square-foot facility located in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The Company also has a
24,000 square-foot facility located in North Carolina to process hemp biomass into
extracts. Neptune brings decades of experience in the natural
products sector to the legal cannabis and hemp industries.
Leveraging its scientific and technological expertise, the Company
sees applications for hemp-derived extracts in the U.S. beyond
existing markets and product forms and into personal care and home
care markets. Neptune's activities also include the development and
commercialization of turnkey nutrition solutions and patented
ingredients such as MaxSimil®, and a variety of marine and seed
oils. Its head office is located in Laval, Quebec.
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