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Sun-Maid Promotes Steve Loftus to CEO

Aug. 10, 2024
He was president and COO; also, Harry Overly exits as board executive chairman to focus on Flagstone Foods.

Sun-Maid Growers of California promoted Steve Loftus from President and Chief Operating Officer to President and Chief Executive Officer. Also, Harry Overly will step down as Executive Chairman of Sun-Maid’s Board of Directors to focus on his role as President and CEO of Flagstone Foods.

Loftus joined Sun-Maid as President and COO in December 2022. At the time, he replaced Braden Bender who served as interim president but then returned to the role of chief financial officer. Loftus came from TreeHouse Foods where worked for 10 years, most recently as vice president and general manager of the condiments business. He earlier worked at Kraft Foods in finance.

Overly became CEO of Flagstone Foods, a private equity-owned processor of private-label nuts and trail mixes, in late 2022 but remained on Sun-Maid’s board.

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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.

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