Ripple Foods© Accelerated Growth in 2020 Spearheaded by New Executive Leaders

Laura Flanagan, David Cooper, Scott Lee and Manoj Kumar join the Leadership Team at plant-based innovator Ripple Foods spurring sales revenue growth and increased share of market

BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Aggressive growth and expansion into new channels has been supported by several new faces on the Ripple Foods Leadership Team. Ripple Foods is a leader in the plant-based dairy and pea-protein space, providing a variety of products including Ripple Plant-Based Milk, Ripple Plant-Based Protein Shakes and Ripple Frozen Desserts.

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With a growth mindset and more focused strategies, Ripple’s tenured executive leaders have seen sales revenue growth more than double year-to-date compared to the same period in 2019.

“This year Ripple has improved its gross margins by double digits and successfully expanded distribution and share of market – bringing Ripple SKUs into Walmart and convenience stores and expanding into direct-to-consumer, school and club channels,” said Laura Flanagan, Chief Executive Officer at Ripple Foods.

The Ripple Leadership Team is focused on partnerships with retailers to expand distribution across the plant-based portfolio, driving velocities with consumers behind meaningful insights and communication, and continuing to advance Ripple’s productivity initiatives to achieve company margin objectives. In addition, new team resources in Marketing and R&D will further develop Ripple’s innovation and technology pipeline to drive future growth.

Recent additions Laura Flanagan, Chief Executive Officer, David Cooper, Chief Financial Officer, Dr. Manoj Kumar, Chief Technology Officer and Scott Lee, VP of Marketing have brought experience in CPG Marketing, Technical Development, and Financial stewardship inclusive of both M&A and IPO readiness and execution.

“We expect to deliver strong revenue growth versus last year, while delivering double digit margin improvement,” said David Cooper, Chief Financial Officer at Ripple Foods. “Ripple’s sales grew 30% through May of this year, and we continue to see strong velocity growth on our core products.”

Laura Flanagan joined Ripple in October as Chief Executive Officer. Since joining Ripple, Flanagan has focused the company on its strategic growth priorities, including supporting the launch of Ripple’s direct-to-consumer e-commerce business. She is focused on accelerating the company’s revenue growth through expanded distribution, innovation, and marketing, while driving margin growth through optimized operations and supply chain.

“Ripple Foods has tremendous runway for growth, and my experience in scaling and optimizing food and beverage businesses is the perfect fit for the agenda ahead. I gravitated to our mission of creating food that is good for people and good for the planet,” said Flanagan.  “We are building a great team to take Ripple’s growth to the next level.  We plan to aggressively expand through new distribution, new products, and broaden our consumer base through awareness and trial.”

Prior to Ripple, Flanagan served as the CEO of Foster Farms, one of the largest branded poultry producers in the United States, where she drove the highest growth and market share levels in years. Flanagan also previously served as the President of the Snacks Division at ConAgra Foods and held leadership roles at PepsiCo.   Flanagan earned her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and currently serves on the Board of Directors for two public companies: Callaway Golf, the leading brand of golf equipment, and Core-Mark International, the largest distributor of food and broad line products to the convenience store channel.

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