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Rucker To Leave Avon for Kraft

SVP to join management at Kraft Foods.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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Kim Rucker, a woman of many hats at Avon (senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer) is departing the company for a role as executive vice president, corporate and legal affairs at Kraft Foods North America. In addition, she will become general counsel and corporate secretary for Kraft Foods Group, Inc. and a member of the management team when the company is spun off later this year.


Sheri McCoy, Avon’s CEO, said, “Kim has built and led a global legal organization that provides strategic legal counsel in partnership with our business leaders around the world.We thank Kim for her leadership, commitment and many important contributions to Avon.We wish her the best in her new role at Kraft as she and her family return to her hometown of Chicago.”

Avon will initiate an external search for a new general counsel. Rucker joined Avon in 2008, and will remain with the company until Aug.17, 2012.

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