July 27, 2012

Hormel Foods names Hormel Foods VP and marketing VP

Press release

Hormel Foods Corporation announced that Patrick J. Schwab, director of fresh meats and margin optimisation, will be appointed vice president of Hormel Foods and senior vice president of consumer products sales (CPS); while Jeffrey R. Baker, director of marketing, foodservice, will be appointed vice president of marketing, foodservice, effective Oct 29.

Schwab and Baker will replace Douglas R. Reetz, vice president of Hormel Foods and senior vice president of CPS, and Dennis B. Goettsch, vice president of marketing, foodservice.

Schwab joined Hormel foods in 1986 and held several sales positions in Atlanta, Cincinnati and Buffalo, before becoming national sales manager of pork primals at the corporate office in Austin  in 1993. Schwab advanced to corporate manager of fresh pork sales, planning and logistics in 2000 and to director of fresh meat sales in 2004. He has held his current role of director of fresh meats and margin optimization since 2009.

Baker joined Hormel Foods in sales in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1990. After holding product manager positions for canned meats and sausage, Baker became the meat products district manager in Buffalo, in 2001. In 2002, he was promoted to senior product manager, meat products, and became the group product manager for meat products three years later. Baker advanced to director of fresh meats marketing and precept foods in 2009, and he advanced to his most recent role as director of marketing, foodservice in 2012.

Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a multinational manufacturer and marketer of consumer-branded food and meat products.