Reed's Names Mark Beaton COO - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Reed's, Inc. (REED), a maker of top-selling sodas in natural food stores, Monday announced the appointment of Mark Beaton as Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to joining Reed's, Beaton was Vice President of Operations at the Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group where he was responsible for leading and directing functions that focused on warehouse and distribution operations, inventory management, environmental health and safety and a corporate real estate portfolio.

Additional positions throughout Beaton's career include the Director of Supply Chain Technology and Warehousing at Cadbury Schweppes Bottling Group, where he was responsible for developing and managing strategies for delivering productivity and process improvement across 166 distribution centers in North America.

Beaton also served in Production, Maintenance and Product Availability Manager Roles with the Pepsi Bottling Group. At the company, one of his projects focused on the restructure and revitalization of a 17.5 million case manufacturing facility that was originally planned for shut-down due to high operation costs, poor waste control and low production efficiency.

Mark began his career as a Hub Operations Supervisor at UPS.