DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Valerie Oswalt has been named president of U.S. sales at Mondelēz International, effective April 1, 2015. She will succeed Don Quigley, who has announced his intention to retire, effective March 31.
In this role, Oswalt will lead all direct-store-delivery (DSD) retail and customer headquarters activities for the company's snacks and confectionery businesses in the United States, supporting a product portfolio that generates annual revenues of approximately $6 billion and includes beloved consumer brands such as belVita, Halls, Honey Maid, Oreo, Ritz, Sour Patch Kids, Stride, Trident, Triscuit and Wheat Thins.
She will be based in East Hanover, N.J.
Oswalt joined the company in 1996 as a sales finance analyst and has progressed through a range of cross-functional roles within the customer team, retail, supply chain, strategy and finance organizations, in both field and headquarters assignments.
Most recently, she was vice president of sales for the west area, a position to which she was appointed in 2012. Prior to that, she spent a year as customer vice president for business development, playing a key leadership role in establishing two distinct customer teams and retail sales organizations to support the Kraft Foods/Mondelēz International businesses as they divided into two independent public companies.
Among her many career highlights, Oswalt held the role of Walmart customer vice president of beverage and grocery from 2008 to 2010, during which she and her team delivered unprecedented successive revenue and share growth for the business and were named Walmart's supplier of the year.
Deerfield, Ill.-based Mondelez International is a global snack company, a world leader in chocolate, biscuits, gum, candy, coffee and powdered beverages, with billion-dollar brands such as Cadbury, Cadbury Dairy Milk and Milka chocolate, Jacobs coffee, LU, Nabisco and Oreo biscuits, Tang powdered beverages and Trident gum.
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