Change At Bayer Consumer Helm As Drive To Top Stalls
Executive Summary
Bayer hires Heiko Schipper away from Nestle's nutritional products business to succeed Erica Mann as its consumer division chief. Mann intended to resign at the end of 2018 but will step down early because Schipper will take the division top spot in March.
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