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Mike Holmes leaves Pepsi after having set up the $85m plant of Dragomireşti

20.10.2010, 00:03 29

Mike Holmes, the American who has run Pepsi's Romanianoperations since 2006, is leaving the top position at the helm ofthe soft drinks bottler and is to be replaced by Pavlos Katsiveliswho will coordinate both the juice and snacks units.


The name of Mike Holmes, 56, is linked to the opening of thebiggest soft drinks plant in Pepsi's portfolio on the Romanianmarket, in the wake of an 85m-dollar investments in a projectstarted from scratch.
The plant was launched last autumn, near Bucharest, and marked akey point for the American whose term started after PepsiAmericastook over the bottling of Pepsi brands domestically.
Early this year, PepsiAmericas' global operations were taken overby PepsiCo so that in March "Mike Holmes accepted the temporary jobof managing the integration of the two businesses in Romania(snacks and drinks) until the arrival of a new general manager forRomania," PepsiCo representatives told BUSINESS Magazin.

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