Campbell Soup Co. Names Chief Customer Officer for Meals & Beverages Division

Feb. 21, 2024

Anthony Kyles joins the company after several years in leadership roles at PepsiCo.

Anthony Kyles, chief customer officer, Meals & Beverages, Campbell Soup Co.

Campbell Soup Co. has announced the appointment of Anthony Kyles to the role of chief customer officer, Meals & Beverages, according to a release shared by the company today. Kyles will step into the position effective March 4, 2024.

He will lead U.S. retail sales for Campbell’s soups, meals, sauces and beverages across the Meals & Beverages division, including such brands as Campbell’s, Chunky, Pacific Foods, V8, Prego, Pace, Swanson and SpaghettiOs. Kyles will report to Mick Beekhuizen, executive vice president and president, Meals & Beverages.

Kyles most recently served as vice president of National Accounts for Frito-Lay at PepsiCo, and he has held multiple roles with PepsiCo since joining the company in 2007. Prior to that, Kyles had been a senior executive in sales and engineering in the banking and automotive industry, and has served as a systems engineer at IBM as well.

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Andy Hanacek | Senior Editor

Andy Hanacek has covered meat, poultry, bakery and snack foods as a B2B editor for nearly 20 years, and has toured hundreds of processing plants and food companies, sharing stories of innovation and technological advancement throughout the food supply chain. In 2018, he won a Folio:Eddie Award for his unique "From the Editor's Desk" video blogs, and he has brought home additional awards from Folio and ASBPE over the years. In addition, Hanacek led the Meat Industry Hall of Fame for several years and was vice president of communications for We R Food Safety, a food safety software and consulting company.