Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> April 14, 2003
CHARLES 'CHUCK' F. MARCY, President and CEO of Horizon Organic
Holding Corporation, brings top-level leadership and food
industry experience to the nation's leading organic food brand.
He joined the Colorado-based company in November 1999 as
President and Chief Operating Officer, and was appointed to his
current position in January 2000. Mr. Marcy is known for building
dynamic brands, developing operational excellence as well as
formulating and facilitating new strategic directions within the
company he leads. He also has considerable experience building
both domestic and international businesses, an important benefit
for Horizon Organic, the world's leading organic dairy company,
with operations in Europe and Asia as well as North America. For
more than 25 years, Mr. Marcy has served as a high-level
executive and strategist at several Fortune 500 corporations and
dairy-related businesses. Before joining Horizon Organic, he was
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Sealright Corp. of
Kansas City, Missouri, a manufacturer of dairy packaging and
packaging systems. At Sealright, he developed and implemented a
new strategy that called for value-added products and services
for Sealright customers. He also tripled international business.
Previously, Mr. Marcy was President of the Golden Grain Co., a
subsidiary of Quaker Oats Co., maker of both the Near East brand
of all-natural products and the well-known Rice-a-Roni brand. In
addition, he served as President of the dairy division at Kraft
General Foods. He also held senior marketing and strategic
planning positions with Sara Lee Corp. and General Foods Corp.
Mr. Marcy graduated magna cum laude from Washington and Jefferson
College in Washington, Pennsylvania, earning an undergraduate
degree in Mathematics and Economics. He received a Master of
Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School where
he focused on Marketing and General Management. Profile
Organic and an overview of things as they are now?
Mr. Marcy: Let me start with the beginning, which was in 1991
when two
