Nestlé USA, home to iconic food brands like Gerber, Stouffer’s and Lean Cuisine, has brought in Waggener Edstrom’s Hannah Coan in a top corporate and brand affairs role, following the retirement of longtime VP Laurie MacDonald.
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MacDonald exits the $10B packaged foods giant after 27 years. Scott Remy, an ad agency vet, is chief communications officer.
Coan, who takes a VP title at Glendale, Calif.-based Nestlé, was a senior VP at WaggEd leading its PR work for Microsoft’s Office division. She was previously an executive VP for Publicis Consultants PR in Seattle, where she handled the Nestle account that included brands like Lean Cuisine, Mighty Dog and Gerber.
Coan leads internal and external communications, public affairs and oversees the company’s Culinary Center.
Other Nestlé brands include Toll House, Juicy Juice and Dreyer’s/Edy’s ice cream.
Swiss parent Nestle S.A. had 2011 sales of $94 billion.