UK: Tim Smith appointed new FSA Chief Executive - (Food Standards Agency)
November 19, 2007 – 7:22 pmhttp://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2007/nov/timsmith
FSA Chair Deirdre Hutton, has appointed Tim Smith as the Agency’s new Chief Executive. Tim Smith, 52, is the former Chief Executive of Arla Foods UK plc, the UK’s leading dairy company and largest fresh milk supplier to the UKs supermarkets. It is responsible for major food brands, Anchor, Lurpak and Cravendale. The company is now part of Arla Foods amba, Europe’s largest dairy manufacturer.
Tim Smith will take up his post in March 2008, replacing John Harwood who has been Chief Executive since March 2006.
Tim Smith graduated from Leeds University with a degree in microbiology and zoology. He has spent his entire career in the food business; from 1979 to 1994 he was at Northern Foods, finishing his career there as a Divisional Director. After five years at Sara Lee Corporation where he was President of UK operations, Tim joined Express Dairies plc as Executive Director where he successfully transformed […]
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