Brazilian food company BRF SA has named Elcio Ito as chief financial officer replacing Lorival Luz, who had held the role on an interim capacity, according to a securities filing on Monday.
The board, which approved Ito’s appointment at a meeting on Aug. 31, also named Leonardo Dallorto as the company’s vice-president of integrated planning and hired Rubens Pereira as vice-president of strategy, management and innovation.
By Ana Mano
Source: Reuters
The Coca-Cola Co. has promoted Evguenia (Jeny) Stoichkova to president of global ventures, effective Jan. 1, 2023. Ms. Stoichkova joined Coca-Cola Bulgaria in 2004 and was most recently the president of the company’s Eurasia & Middle East division, a role she has held since 2021.
US-based Perfect Day, is partnering with Onego Bio, which specializes in creating animal-free eggs, aiming to accelerate the timeline to bring the eggs to the market. The business, with the use of its technology, plans to commercialize animal-free ovalbumin, the most abundant egg white protein extracted through precision fermentation.
Food waste costs the EU €143 billion per year (US$141.7 billion), with a report by Feedback EU raising the alarm of how it’s vital to reduce waste from farm to fork 50% by 2030 and the only way this will be achieved is by enforcing a mandatory directive forcing the food industry to do better and retailers to pay a tax of food waste.
