Hormel Foods Corporation, a Fortune 500 global branded food company, announced the upcoming retirement of Mark Coffey, group vice president of supply chain. The company announced that Steve Lykken, group vice president of Jennie-O Turkey Store, will advance to group vice president of supply chain. In this role, Lykken will lead the company's One Supply Chain organization, including procurement, manufacturing, engineering, logistics, research and development, quality management and plant operations.
About Mark Coffey Coffey started his career with Hormel Foods as a supervisor at the company's former Ottumwa (Iowa) Plant in 1985. He held a variety of positions at several locations before moving to the Corporate Office (Austin, Minnesota) in 1991 as product manufacturing manager for cured and smoked meats. Coffey was promoted to plant manager at the company's former Houston (Texas) Plant in 1995 and held this position at Dold Foods (Wichita, Kansas), Osceola (Iowa) Food and the company's former Fremont (Nebraska) Plant before being named plant manager of the company's flagship plant in Austin, Minnesota in 2005.