Nestlé hires former GSK executive for top Kenya job
Food maker Nestlé has tapped a former healthcare executive as country managing director for Kenya to drive growth.
The Swiss-based multinational has hired Ciru Miring’u to succeed outgoing MD Svetlana Obruchkova, a Ukrainian, who took over the position last year.
Ms Miring’u previously served as general manager in charge of Africa nutrition ventures division at GlaxoSmithKline.
She will have the task of defending and growing the market share of Nestlé’s flagship products such as Cerelac, KitKat, Cerevita Cereal, Nescafe coffee, Milo and Maggi noodles in the Kenyan market.
Nestlé picked Swiss national Cornel Krummenacher as chief executive for the Equatorial Africa to take over from Ian Donald who served a two-year term in Nairobi and has been posted as CEO for Nestlé South Africa.
Kenya is a key market for Nestlé given it is one of the four countries in Africa where the company has a production factory. The other plants are in Zimbabwe, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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