Nancy started her career at Allen & Overy and practiced for six years in corporate finance and capital markets before moving to work in - house as sole counsel in
a large dairy manufacturing company.
Not exact matches
As globalization trends continue to expand food and beverage industry
manufacturing operations into multi-national holdings, the U.S.
dairy industry's product portfolio scope combines with its status as the
largest single - country cow's milk producer to anchor its ability to serve high - quality U.S.
dairy products and ingredients to the world.
Prior to serving as CEO, Mr. Tanner served as Dean Foods» Chief Supply Chain Officer and President of its Fresh
Dairy Direct division, where he was responsible for all sales, marketing,
manufacturing and distribution functions for Dean Foods»
largest business unit and for supply chain operations for the company as a whole.
PepsiCo has also launched a new line for
manufacturing Agusha and Chudo Detki baby food yogurts as the final stage of its
large - scale investment project to expand capacity of the Nizhny Novgorod
Dairy Plant, which is part of Wimm - Bill - Dann.
She boasts extensive
manufacturing and operations experience, cultivated from an early age through hands - on observation of strategy, planning and execution at Johanna Foods, Inc., one of the country's
largest dairy and beverage companies, housing such brands as La Yogurt, Tree Ripe, Earth Wise and Ssips, in some of the most state - of - the - art facilities in the business.
According to those officials present, despite the fact that Houston is the seventh
largest school district in the country and therefore a major consumer of milk, the profit margins for
dairies supplying schools (as opposed to private entities) is extremely low and would be wiped out by the
manufacturing costs associated with making such changes.
But these brands / business are valuable to a
larger dairy / food business, which could quickly realize a 10 - 20 % operating margin (deserving at least an implied 1.33 Price / Sales valuation) running them through their own
manufacturing & distribution network.
As I've said, if a small but attractive
dairy brand is plugged into another company's much
larger manufacturing & distribution network, there's v little incremental cost / investment required — therefore, the incremental operating margin to be earned can be pretty substantial (not to talk of the increased revenue potential).