CA appoints GrainCorp CEO
Coca-Cola Amatil this morning announced the appointment of Alison Watkins, who is currently the chief executive officer of Graincorp, as group managing director.
CCA chairman David Gonski said: "Alison has a highly successful operations and management background across many industries, having delivered impressive results across the food and beverages, retail and finance sectors and has significant experience in developing and managing businesses and people."
"I believe Alison's skills and background will assist CCA to deliver strong performance outcomes from our existing operations and progress the strong development opportunities in our emerging businesses."
"The board is confident that Alison's leadership credentials and focus on excellence position her well to drive further development and growth across the CCA Group," said Gonski.
Watkins is currently the CEO of GrainCorp where over the past three and a half years she has successfully grown and diversified the business from a largely domestic grain logistics business into Australia's leading listed international agriculture and food processing company.
Watkins said: "I am excited by this opportunity. I believe my career and experience to date puts me in an excellent position to lead CCA in its next chapter of growth, building on the successes achieved under the leadership of Terry Davis."
Watkins is an experienced chief executive officer and ASX 20 company board director with experience across alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, food processing, agriculture, retail, consumer goods and financial services.
Prior to her role at GrainCorp she held a number of executive roles including CEO of Berri Limited, the market leader in the Australian juice sector at the time, and is a former partner of McKinsey & Company.
She was formerly a non-executive director of Woolworths Limited and is currently a non-executive director of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ).
As a direct result of her appointment as the new group managing director of CCA, Watkins intends to resign from her non-executive directorship of ANZ in April 2014.
She will join CCA on 3 March 2014 and will replace CCA's current long-serving group managing director, Terry Davis, who will step down from his position on this date.
Davis will remain available for advice and special projects to Watkins and the board until the end of August 2014.
Source: The Shout, 2 November 2013
