British Columbia fruit juice and snack maker Sun-Rype Products has tapped its vice-president of operations as its new CEO.
Dave McAnerney has been named president and CEO for Sun-Rype, which he joined in 2005, serving most recently as vice-president of operations and human resources, plus a short stint as interim president and CEO in 2008.
Citing the new CEO’s “outstanding leadership,” board chairman and B.C. orchardist Merv Geen cited McAnerney’s work on the negotiating team that brokered a new five-year contract with the Teamsters Local 213, to run to the end of August 2015.
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The Teamsters represent the company’s Kelowna plant employees, while its head office staff are non-union.
“With that new collective agreement providing for long-term stability at the company’s Kelowna manufacturing facility, Dave and Sun-Rype’s management team will be able to focus on growing the company,” Geen said in a release Tuesday.
McAnerney came to Kelowna-based Sun-Rype from another B.C.-based beverage firm, Columbia Brewery of Creston, where he served as the Labatt-owned brewery’s manager.
As the juice maker’s CEO, McAnerney replaces David Lynn, a former Saputo executive who helmed Sun-Rype for 16 months.
Lynn “has left the company to pursue other opportunities” but Sun-Rype didn’t say what those opportunities involve.
Sun-Rype, which started as the apple juicing and processing wing of the B.C. Fruit Growers Association in 1946, is now a publicly traded company (TSX:SRF).
