Perdue Farms, the Salisbury, MD-based parent company of Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness, has appointed Andrea Staub senior vice president of corporate communications.
Staub joins Perdue from vitamin and nutritional supplements manufacturer NBTY, Inc. — formerly Nature’s Bounty — where she served as vice president of global corporate communications. Prior to that she was communications director for Capital One Bank and director of corporate communications for mobile data company Symbol Technologies. She also owned a PR consulting firm, Blake Hunter Communications, where she served as President.
Staub will now lead the enhancement of internal and external communications at Perdue and will provide communications counsel as well as oversee community relations activities and serve as company spokesperson.
Perdue Farms Chairman Jim Perdue called Staub “a highly respected communications professional with an outstanding track record of developing and executing communications programs and strategies for global and national companies.”
Perdue Farms, which was founded in 1920, in 2014 posted annual sales of $6.3 billion.
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