Further management changes at HKScan

Over recent months, Scandinavian-based meat and poultry company HKScan has undergone a number of management changes.

Jyrki Karlsson, left, and Anu Mankki have been appointed to executive vice president roles within the HKScan Corporation. | HKScan
Jyrki Karlsson, left, and Anu Mankki have been appointed to executive vice president roles within the HKScan Corporation. | HKScan

Over recent months, Scandinavian-based meat and poultry company HKScan has undergone a number of management changes.

The latest changes include the resignation, with immediate effect, of Samuli Eskola as Executive Vice President, Consumer Business, Finland and Baltics. Jyrki Karlsson has been appointed to this position, and will be a member of the management team of HKScan Corporation. Reporting to the CEO, his main tasks will be to improve the commercial performance and profitability of HKScan’s Finnish and Baltic businesses.

Set to take over responsibility of HKScan human resources management group-wide, Anu Mankki has been appointed as the new Executive Vice President, Human Resources, and will also be a member of the Management Team. She will take up her new post in January 2017.

It was announced in May of this year that the new CEO of HKScan Corporation would be Jari Latvanen. He has recently fully taken over the role.

HKScan is among the top meat companies in northern Europe. The firm produces, sells and markets pork, beef and poultry meat, processed meats and convenience foods to customers throughout the food supply chain in its home markets - Finland, Sweden, Denmark, the Baltic countries and Poland - and many export destinations.

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Ahead of the publication of the company’s latest quarterly report, HKScan had issued a profit warning.

Aki Laiho, the company’s deputy CEO at that time, explained the key challenges in the main geographical areas of its business, highlighting the further decline in the markets in Finland and the Baltics.

“Throughout the whole year, challenges in animal raw material sourcing have affected our business performance negatively,” Laiho said. “Low beef raw material availability and rapidly increasing purchase prices were seen also on the other markets. In Sweden, the prices have remained on an exceptionally high level during the third quarter of this year. In Finland, pork supply volumes stabilized as a consequence of our ongoing special actions.”

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