T. Marzetti Co. named Tanya Berman president of its retail business unit, hiring her away from Mondelez. She will lead sales, marketing and innovation for T. Marzetti’s portfolio of retail brands and licensed products.
Berman has 25 years of experience in general management and marketing. Most recently, she was a senior vice president at Mondelez, leading the company’s U.S. portfolio of cookie and cracker brands. Prior to that, she held several leadership roles at Mars Wrigley including vice president of the chocolate business unit and senior brand director of M&Ms.
Marzetti, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lancaster Colony Corp., does a lot of co-branding with foodservice clients (Olive Garden dressings, Buffalo Wild Wings sauces, Subway condiments) but also has a growing list of owned brands: Marzetti dressings and dips, New York Bakery garlic breads and Sister Schubert’s dinner rolls.
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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.