The Africa team of new Barry Callebaut CEO Peter Feld
With the Swiss chocolate giant’s new CEO Peter Feld taking the helm at the start of April, replacing Peter Boone, who left for personal reasons, Africa Business + looks at how the group’s African operations are organised.
02/05/2023 at 17h18, by Estelle Maussion
The German Peter Feld, former CEO of GfK, arrived at the head of Barry Callebaut on 5 April and has found an African team located between Europe, the Middle East and the continent where the group is developing through three main poles: Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa and Morocco.
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