Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> June 10, 2002

Charles Marcy – Horizon Organic Dairy (hcow)

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
TWST: Can you give us a brief historical sketch of Horizon Organic

Holding Corp., as well as a picture of what you are doing at the present

time?

Mr. Marcy: Let me begin with the start of the