Frontier Natural Products
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Stephen Hughes succeeds Tony Bedard as CEO. Hughes most recently served as CEO and president of Celestial Seasonings; he also has held exec positions at Tropicana Dole Beverages North America, Healthy Choice and McCormick & Company. Boulder, Colo.-based Frontier, founded in 1976, is a cooperative owned by 15,000 members, largely retailers. A marketer of certified organic herbs and spices, organic coffee, natural remedies and aromatherapy items, Frontier posted annual sales of $40 mil. in fiscal 2000