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65 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today United Kingdom Awards 2019 FOOD & BEVERAGES GEORGE WESTON CEO of Associated British Foods FIRM PROFILE Associated British Foods is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £15.6bn, 137,000 employees and operations in 50 countries across Europe, southern Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Our purpose is to provide safe, nutritious, affordable food and clothing that is great value for money. Our business is split into five segments: Grocery; Sugar; Agriculture; Ingredients; and Retail. Retail Primark is a major retail group employing approximately 75,000 people. It has 360 stores and operates in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, France, Italy and the US. It offers customers quality, up-to-the-minute fashion at value-for-money prices. Put simply, “Amazing Fashion, Amazing Prices.” Buying and merchandising teams in Dublin (Republic of Ireland) and Reading (UK) travel internationally to source and buy fashion items that best reflect each season’s key fashion trends. Primark’s range includes womenswear, lingerie, childrenswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, hosiery, beauty and homeware. International Twinings and Ovaltine are our global hot beverage brands. Mazzetti is a leading balsamic vinegar brand. Europe Silver Spoon and Billington’s sugars, Jordans and Dorset cereals, Ryvita, Kingsmill, Patak’s and Blue Dragon. Our UK beet sugar factories typically produce well over 1 million tonnes of sugar annually. Azucarera in Spain produces over 400,000 tonnes of beet sugar each year and has a cane refining capacity of a further 400,000 tonnes. The Americas In the US, Mazola is the leader in corn oil and we sell a range of baking brands through retail and foodservice channels. Capullo is a premium canola oil in Mexico. www.abf.co.uk ABOUT GEORGE WESTON George was appointed to the board in 1999 and took up his current appointment as Chief Executive in April 2005. In his former roles at Associated British Foods, he was Managing Director of Westmill Foods, Allied Bakeries and George Weston Foods Limited (Australia). Other appointments: He is a non-executive director of Wittington Investments Limited and a trustee of the GarfieldWeston Foundation.