October 20/Minneapolis/just-food global news -- ConAgra Foods has promoted from within and appointed Paul Maass to head its commercial-foods unit -- a B2B operation that accounts for a over a third of the group's turnover.
Maass, the head of the ConAgra Mills unit within the B2B arm, has become president of the company's commercial-foods business immediately. He replaces Rob Sharpe, who plans to retire from ConAgra at the end of its fiscal year, which ends in May.