Industry news: Nielsen's Canadian team and Sobeys donates water
APPOINTMENT NOTICES
Nielsen announced a series of changes to its Canadian leadership team. Mike Lujubicic has been named managing director, taking over the role from Jeanne Danubio, who moved to Nielsen in Geneva Switzerland. Ljubicic’s replacement as head of client services is Krista Thompson, who spent the last year working on the design and implementation of Nielsen’s Canadian strategy.
Also at Nielsen, Rick Winslow will add the marketing effectiveness practice to his job portfolio of Nielsen value-add solutions. Hanif Mohamed will continue leading Nielsen’s retail services team in Canada.
Galen Weston is stepping down as executive chairman of George Weston Ltd. To make room for his son. The elder Weston will become chairman emeritus of the company while his 43-year-old son Galen G. Weston becomes chairman.
OPENINGS
Longo’s opened a new store in Ancaster, Ont on Wednesday. The 47,000-sq.-ft. store is the chain’s 30th store, and its first outside the Greater Toronto Area. The independent grocer also revamped its Market by Longo’s store in downtown Toronto’s Brookfield Place, doubling its size to 6,200 square feet and adding new amenities. It was the first major renovation for the store, which was the first of five Market by Longo’s stores in downtown Toronto when it opened in 2006.
The NSF-GFTC, formerly known as the Guelph Food Technology Centre, has changed its name to NSF Inernational. NSF International, a global leader in food safety and quality, acquired GFTC in 2013. The name change is meant to help align all NSF services in Canada under the NSF umbrella. The announcement coincided with the grand opening of the organization’s new 20,000-sq.-ft. facility, which houses FSF’s eLearning courses along with food packaging, labelling and product and process development services.
DEALS
U.S. Seedmaker Monsanto has agreed to a $57-billion buyout from Germany’s Bayer in a deal that would create a global agricultural and chemical giant. It was the third time in four months that Bayer returned with a richer offer to sell the acquisition to Monsanto.
Blue Harvest Fisheries has acquired High Liner Foods' scallop business and processing facility in New Bedford, MA. High Liner Foods, headquartered in Lunenberg, N.S., is one of the largest seafood companies in North America.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
In response twestern Nova Scotia’s desperate and need for water, Sobeys is donating five tractor trailer loads of bottled water. The delivery of the 107,500 litres of water will be co-ordinated by Emergency Measures Organization to best meet the needs of those hardest hit communities across Southwestern Nova Scotia.
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