Gildan Activewear Names James Kehoe Chief Financial & Administrative Officer

(RTTNews) - Gildan Activewear Inc. (GIL, GIL.TO) announced that it has appointed James Kehoe as its Executive Vice-President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, effective January 1, 2015. Kehoe succeeds Laurence Sellyn, who is retiring from this position which he has filled since 1999.

Kehoe, 52, has spent 25 years within the Kraft Foods organization in successive roles of increasing responsibility, both in Europe and North America. As such, Mr. Kehoe comes to Gildan with extensive experience in a sophisticated global consumer products environment with leading global consumer brands, vertical manufacturing operations and best practices for commodities purchasing.

Before joining to Gildan, Kehoe was Senior Vice-President, Operating Excellence, for Mondelez International, the former snacking and confectionary division of Kraft Foods. Previously, Kehoe was Senior Vice-President, Corporate Finance of Kraft Foods Group where he led the financial structuring of the Company at the time of the spin-off from Mondelez.