Amcor names new leadership for flexible packaging and investor relations

Amcor has named Ryan Yost arsenic part president for planetary flexible packaging solutions and Kate Pearlman arsenic elder vice president for capitalist relations and treasury.

Yost joins aft 25 years astatine Avery Dennison, wherever helium astir precocious led the company's planetary $6bn Materials Group arsenic president.

Over that period, helium besides held elder posts covering commercialized work, operations, proviso chains and worldly science. He volition beryllium based successful the US.

Pearlman has much than 20 years of acquisition successful capitalist relations, treasury and hazard absorption astatine Fortune 200 companies.

She joins from Lowe's, wherever she served arsenic vice president of capitalist relations and treasurer.

In her caller station astatine Amcor, she volition run retired of the US, reporting to enforcement vice president and main fiscal serviceman Stephen Scherger.

Amcor CEO Peter Konieczny said: "Ryan and Kate are exceptional leaders with proven way records of driving growth, gathering high-performing teams and translating strategy into results crossed large, planetary organisations.

"I americium highly assured successful Amcor's business, strategy and quality to present for our customers and shareholders. Ryan and Kate bring the close expertise to assistance america physique momentum, and we're excited to invited them arsenic we presumption Amcor for its adjacent signifier of growth.

The appointments travel the planned exits of Fred Stephan and Tracey Whitehead from their respective roles.

Stephan is retiring from Amcor portion Whitehead is staying successful Australia to prosecute different opportunities. Both volition stay with the institution arsenic advisers until 31 December 2026 to enactment the handover.

Konieczny added: "Fred and Tracey person each made a lasting interaction connected Amcor, and I convey them for their outstanding leadership, concern and unwavering committedness to the company."

Amcor posted attributable nett income of $278m for the 3rd 4th (Q3) of fiscal twelvemonth 2026, up 41.8% from the aforesaid 4th of the erstwhile year.

While announcing its Q3 results, the institution besides revealed plans to alteration its fiscal calendar to align with the calendar year. Its existent fiscal twelvemonth volition extremity connected 30 June, followed by a modulation "stub period" from 1 July to 31 December 2026.

The caller reporting calendar volition commencement successful 2027, and the institution said it expects to supply an outlook for the twelvemonth successful February.

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