B&G Foods Appoints Thomas P. Crimmins as Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer

March 10, 2015 | By Business Wire News

PARSIPPANY, N.J.

B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE:BGS) announced today that it has appointed Thomas P. Crimmins, age 46, as its Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 16, 2015. In this role, Mr. Crimmins will oversee the Company’s finance organization and be a part of the Company’s executive management team, reporting to President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert C. Cantwell.

“We are very pleased to have Tom Crimmins join our executive team,” said Mr. Cantwell. “Tom is an experienced and talented CFO and will be a valuable addition to B&G Foods.”

Mr. Crimmins joins B&G Foods from DRS Technologies, Inc., where he spent 16 years, the last three as that company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In that position, he was responsible for corporate and operational finance, corporate procurement, taxation, accounting, treasury and internal audit. From 1992 to 1999, Mr. Crimmins was an audit manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Crimmins replaces Mr. Cantwell, who has been the Company’s Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer since 1991, and has been serving in that role on an interim basis since the beginning of this year, when he was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer.

About B&G Foods, Inc.

B&G Foods and its subsidiaries manufacture, sell and distribute a diversified portfolio of high-quality, branded shelf-stable foods across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Based in Parsippany, New Jersey, B&G Foods’ products are marketed under many recognized brands, including Ac’cent, B&G, B&M, Baker’s Joy, Bear CreekCountry Kitchens, Brer Rabbit, Canoleo, Cary’s, Cream of Rice, Cream of Wheat, Devonsheer, Don Pepino, Emeril’s, Grandma’s Molasses, JJ Flats, Joan of Arc, Las Palmas, MacDonald’s, Maple Grove Farms, Molly McButter, Mrs. Dash, New York Flatbreads, New York Style, Old London, Original Tings, Ortega, Pirate’s Booty, Polaner, Red Devil, Regina, Rickland Orchards, Sa-són, Sclafani, Smart Puffs, Spring Tree, Sugar Twin, Trappey’s, TrueNorth, Underwood, Vermont Maid and Wright’s. B&G Foods also sells and distributes two branded household products, Static Guard and Kleen Guard.

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