Norwich, Vt. – King Arthur Flour has hired Mark Tecca of Lyme, N.H., in the newly created position of Director of New Business Development. Tecca’s primary responsibility is to facilitate the evaluation of new business ideas to increase the number of new opportunities the employee-owned company can pursue.
"We are proud to have Mark join the King Arthur Flour team. We have so many opportunities to develop new products to meet customer demand, and adding someone of Mark's caliber to focus on this area of our business will help us make these opportunities into realities," says Michael Bittel, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Flour.
Tecca brings to the position years of experience in sales, sales management, product management, business development, and partnership development in the technology industry and nonprofit arena. He holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
“There’s no shortage of good new business ideas at King Arthur Flour,” Tecca says. “If we can evaluate and prioritize them more quickly, it will keep new ideas coming from customers, employees, and partners. I feel exceptionally fortunate to work with such a great team of people, serving customers who love what we do.”
King Arthur Flour is one of America’s best-selling flours, known by avid bakers for its consistent baking performance and lack of chemical additives. A selection of King Arthur’s unbleached flours and additive- and preservative-free baking mixes is sold in supermarkets nationwide. More information and a complete roundup of King Arthur Flour’s baking resources are available at kingarthurflour.com/flours. King Arthur Flour’s mail-order catalogue offers more than 1,000 professional-grade baking tools and ingredients, available online at kingarthurflour.com and at The Baker’s Store in Norwich, Vermont. The oldest flour company in America, King Arthur Flour has been employee-owned since 1996.
Source: King Arthur Flour