With the company's successful financial restructuring and subsequent integration with JBS USA now largely complete, the timing seemed right for an executive transition.
The regional variation in the pace of economic growth has created significant change and new opportunities for Diageo. As a result, the company has begun to review its operating model across the global business.
The merger creates a larger business with a complementary portfolio of high-quality bakery products and deepens Flowers' penetration of the estimated $4 billion U.S. snack cake category.