May 6/Marketing Weekly News -- Ken Stickevers, formerly vice president and general manager of sales and marketing for McCormick's United States Consumer Products Division (USCPD), has been promoted to president USCPD in an organizational change at McCormick and Company Inc., as announced by chairman, president and CEO Alan Wilson. The promotion went into effect April 5.

Stickevers will assume overall commercial and operational responsibility for McCormick's U.S. consumer business, which includes McCormick, Old Bay, Lawry's and Simply Asia branded items. He will report to Mark Timbie, president-North American Consumer Foods.

Stickevers joined McCormick in April 2008 after working at Campbell Soup Company where he was a vice president of marketing. He has a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Wright State University.

From the May 10, 2010, Prepared Foods E-dition