Fiona Bennie joins leadership of Newton’s consumer goods and retail wing

Newton has introduced the appointment of Fiona Bennie as a accomplice inside its consumer goods and retail markets. She brings greater than twenty years of expertise to the agency.

Commenting on her transfer, Bennie mentioned, “The consumer industries are at an inflection level, going through margin stress, shifting consumer values, the impacts of local weather change, and provide chain uncertainties. Newton’s forensic rigour, deep shopper relationships, and supply power is the proper basis to assist present and future shoppers navigate this complexity. I’m excited to make use of my expertise to assist the group obtain its ambitions.”

Fiona Bennie brings greater than twenty years of expertise to the consulting agency, with a deal with innovation, foresight, transformation, and sustainability within the consumer goods and retail sectors.

She joins Newton from Accenture, the place she was a managing director and co‑led the worldwide consumer goods sustainability observe and its UK‑based mostly sustainable innovation group. She led Accenture’s partnership with the World Financial Discussion board on the New Frontiers of Vitamin initiative and labored carefully with the Consumer Goods Discussion board’s More healthy Lives Coalition.

World growth

UK-headquartered Newton is a world administration consulting agency with hubs within the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. The consultancy has round 500 workers, and works with shoppers throughout sectors, together with retail, consumer goods, defence, infrastructure, and public sectors.

Wil Schoenmakers, world head of retail and consumer goods at Newton, said, “Fiona thrives on fixing shopper challenges in surprising methods and creating environments the place various groups can problem assumptions and thrive. She additionally has an actual ardour for mentoring and serving to individuals develop. Crucially, her expertise in innovation, foresight, and sustainability mixed with Newton’s supply excellence will create new alternatives for shoppers and the enterprise.”

The arrival of Bennie comes shortly after Newton bolstered the senior leadership group of its consumer goods and retail observe with the hires of Tony Ward in North America, and Harmen van Os in Europe.

“We now have enormous ambitions for the consumer group,” concluded Schoenmakers. “We goal to drive development by focussing on worldwide growth, strengthening our current markets, and increasing into new market sectors.”