Croatia's Agrokor has named Marin Poljak as the new president of the management board and CEO of Ledo d.d., its frozen foods business.
Poljak joins Agrokor from Philip Morris International, where he held the position of transformation director for key European markets, as well as previously holding the role of director of marketing and commercial strategy for the tobacco group's Alpe Adria division.
He also previously headed up the marketing operations for British American Tobacco in Croatia and Bosnia, as well as holding roles with the business in Ukraine, Moldova and Turkey.
Management Experience
According to Agrokor, Poljak has 'almost twenty years of management experience with multinational companies from the FMCG sector'.
He replaces Dario Vrabec at the head of the Ledo operation, who has resigned from his position at his own request, according to Agrokor.
Agrokor's extraordinary administration issued a statement saying that they "would like to thank Dario Vrabec for his long-standing contribution to the successful operations of Ledo and for preserving the production under the extremely difficult conditions that preceded the opening of the extraordinary administration procedure at Agrokor as well as during the procedure itself".
It's not the only change Agrokor has made to its management structure in recent weeks; last week the business announced the appointment of Dario Šalić as the new chief executive of its Jamnica mineral water business.
His appointment followed the departure of Mislav Galić as the CEO of the group's water arm.
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