May 20/Food Weekly Focus -- Mike Mitchell has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc. Mitchell joins Dreyer's from Nestle USA and replaces retiring CEO Timothy F. Kahn. Dreyer's has been owned by Nestle SA since 2006.
Prior to taking the top job at Dreyer's, Mitchell had been the president of Sales for Nestle USA, where he was responsible for all retail sales for supermarkets, mass merchandising, discounters, club stores, drug stores and military since 2002. Under his leadership, the Nestle USA Sales team achieved seven consecutive years of exceeding sales growth targets.