OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NuTek Food Science, the company behind two revolutionary salt products, NuTek Salt and Salt for Life®, announces that Frank Davis has joined the organization as Executive Vice President of Operations. Davis is responsible for all manufacturing and supply chain management for the company, including the startup of a new plant in Fargo, North Dakota which will dramatically increase capacity and enable the company to meet it’s growing demand from large global food manufacturers, restaurant chains, and retailers.
“Frank is joining our management team at an exciting time as our business growth, driven by continued consumer demand for great-tasting food with improved nutrition, necessitates that we significantly expand our manufacturing capacity,” said Brian Boor, President and COO of NuTek Food Science. “We must ensure we maintain world class execution and efficiency within our overall supply chain and are pleased to have someone of Frank’s caliber to effectively execute our expansion strategies and drive initiatives for innovative salt products in both the near term and long term.”
Davis brings more than 30 years of food manufacturing and supply chain management experience to NuTek. He has served in progressively expanding senior leadership roles with firms including Newly Weds Foods, ConAgra Foods, and The Schwan Food Company. In his most recent role, Frank served as Sr. Vice President of Operations at Dole Foods.
“I am extremely excited to join the NuTek team, and with it the opportunity to use my skills to help deliver on the company’s motivating health and wellness mission and positively affect many millions of consumers,” Davis said. “I will be focused on leading the rapid expansion of our manufacturing and supply chain network to meet demand for our products at the world class standards our global customer base requires.”
About Nu-Tek Food Science
The mission of Nu-Tek Food Science is to help create great-tasting and affordable food that enhances global health and wellness. The company strives to grow its business by being great partners to the global food system, with innovative products for food manufacturers, food retailers, and restaurant chains. With two revolutionary new salt products, NuTek Salt and Salt for Life®, NuTek delivers improved nutrition through unprecedented levels of sodium reduction in food, replacing it with potassium, a necessary nutrient – all while maintaining great taste, affordability, and ease of use. The company’s salts are naturally sourced and through a proprietary process have achieved successful sodium reduction in excess of 50% in many foods (seven process patents issued; eleven pending). For consumers, Nu-Tek Food Science offers Salt for Life®, a packaged blend of potassium salt and sea salt for use at-home, providing more than 75 percent less sodium than regular table salt with no compromise in taste.
Nu-Tek Food Science, funded in part by an investment from Khosla Ventures, has offices in Omaha, NE, Minneapolis, MN, and Washington, DC. Fast Company highlighted the company as one of just a few companies that Bill Gates recognized as “Shaping the Future of Food.” You can find further information at www.nuteksalt.com or www.saltforlife.com.
