Ian Brannan has submitted his resignation as chief financial officer of Australia-based poultry company Ingham’s.
His resignation was announced by the company on January 2 and will be effective after a six-month notice period. With that timeline, Brannan will remain with the company to ensure it delivers its financial results for the 2019 fiscal year.
He had been with the company for about 3½ years. Prior to coming to Ingham’s, Brannan had more than 20 years’ senior management experience with public and private companies in Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. He held senior financial roles with Sara Lee Bakery, Arnott’s Biscuits, Campbell Soup, GWA Group and Carter Holt Harvey Building Supplies Group.
The process of searching for Brannan’s successor as chief financial officer has begun.
Brannan’s departure is just one of several recent changes in management for the company over the past year. Mick McMahon left his role as CEO of Ingham’s during the summer of 2018 after the company announced its financial results for the 2019 fiscal year.
Jim Leighton, who has earlier experience working for Perdue Farms, Aryzta, 40North Foods, Nabisco, Con-Agra and Hain Celestial, became the company’s new CEO near the end of the 2018 calendar year, after Quinton Hildebrand served as the interim CEO.
Leighton, in a statement, said he was “sorry to see” Brannan go, and said Brannan was “an integral part of the management team’s transformation and listing of the company.”
Ingham’s was listed with the Australian Stock Exchange in November 2016.
Ingham’s, according to the WATTAgNet Top Poultry Companies Database, is Australia’s largest poultry producer, supplying about 40 percent of the market. It also has a strong presence in New Zealand. It is active in both the broiler and the turkey industries.
As Australia's second-largest feed producer, Ingham’s also makes feed for poultry, horses, dairy cows and pigs.
