Nestl\u00e9 UK and Ireland has appointed Ben Duncan to its senior leadership team as managing director for food UK and Ireland, effective 13 April,<\/p>\n
In his new role, Duncan will lead Nestl\u00e9\u2019s food business across the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n
He began his career in market research before joining Purina, Nestl\u00e9\u2019s pet care business, in 2004. Over the past two decades, he has held a range of senior commercial roles in the UK and internationally, building broad experience across sales, marketing and category leadership. <\/p>\n
After starting as category manager in the UK, Duncan moved to the Netherlands in 2011 to lead sales and marketing for Purina\u2019s specialist channel business, guiding the team through a challenging market. He returned to the UK in 2015 to take on a senior role leading Purina\u2019s specialist and ecommerce business, before assuming responsibility in 2020 for strategic revenue management, category management and shopper marketing across Purina teams in Northern Europe. <\/p>\n
Since January 2024, Duncan has served as head of marketing for Purina\u2019s northern region. <\/p>\n
Speaking about his appointment, Duncan said: \u201cI\u2019m really pleased to be stepping into the role of managing director and joining the brilliant team in our food business. Our trusted brands play a key role in everyday meals for families across the UK and Ireland, and I\u2019m excited to build on that trust and put consumers at the centre of everything we do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duncan has a degree in Economics and lives with his wife and two children in West Sussex. A keen runner, he is currently training for the London Marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 UK and Ireland has appointed Ben Duncan to its senior leadership team as managing director for food…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[126],"tags":[28496,199,28497,22318],"class_list":["post-49751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nestle","tag-ben-duncan","tag-nestle","tag-nestle-uk-ireland-md","tag-purina"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116412890829754856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}