Litehouse Foods Promotes Brent Carr To Lead Sales & Marketing

SANDPOINT, IDAHO  – Litehouse Foods, a top-selling brand in the Refrigerated Salad Dressing (RSD) category, has named Brent Carr to the executive role of senior vice president of sales and marketing. In his new role, Brent will report directly to President and CEO, Jim Frank and lead the company’s fast-paced growth in the dressings, dips, cheese and herbs categories.

A graduate of Boise State University with a degree in marketing, Carr is a 30-year industry veteran who spent the first 15 years of his career at consumer packaged goods giant, Colgate-Palmolive. He then expanded his skill set with deep experience in the produce industry, working at Fresh Express for 10 years leading their National Account Teams. Carr joined Litehouse in 2009 to help build the value-added channel and was promoted to vice president of sales in 2012.

“Brent has been instrumental in helping our brand achieve year-over-year double digit growth in our category, creating deep relationships with our customers and working cross-functionally at Litehouse to achieve outstanding results,” said Jim Frank, president and CEO. “He is widely respected in the produce business and we are proud to have him lead our sales and marketing teams.”

Carr lives in Idaho with his wife Lorri. He has four children and a granddaughter. He is active in his local community and has been a long-time Leader with Boy Scouts of America, and recently completed a leadership program at the Philmont Training Center in New Mexico.

“My focus in this new role will be to align our sales and marketing teams and strive to strengthen our cross-functional relationships with our customers in each channel, added Carr. “Litehouse is a fast-growing brand and I am excited to work with our team to continue to build category-leadership and innovation.”

About Litehouse Foods, Inc.                                                                                

Litehouse, Inc. started in the Hope, Idaho restaurant of the Hawkins family over 50 years ago. Since that time, it has become the leader in refrigerated salad dressings, fruit and veggie dips, sauces, instantly fresh herbs, blue cheese, and fresh pressed apple cider, manufacturing these delicious products at its three U.S. facilities based in Michigan, Utah and Idaho. Litehouse is proud to be 100% employee-owned and each one of the employee owners is proud to carry on the high standards of quality and innovation, living up to the slogan… Families Making Food for Families.   

For more information, visit www.LitehouseFoods.com.

Source: Litehouse Foods, Inc.