Clearly Canadian Appoints Bobby Genovese Chairman of the Board
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--CLEARLY CANADIAN (OTCBB:CCBEF) (the “Company”) today announced the appointment of Bobby Genovese as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Genovese, the company’s controlling shareholder will now assume an active role, highlighted by an immediate mandate on accelerating growth initiatives and enhanced shareholder value.
With a highly distinguished career in business development and management, Mr. Genovese is the founder and Chairman of the Board of BG Capital Group, a very profitable multinational business consolidator experiencing double digit growth and total combined revenues in excess of $150 million. Mr. Genovese has over 15 years of mergers and acquisition experience, and has consulted for numerous multi-million dollar corporations. He has shown remarkable abilities for positioning public companies in high growth arenas and providing maximum shareholder valuations.
Mr. Genovese stated, “I will apply my expertise however necessary in order to help accelerate the turnaround of Clearly Canadian Brands. We are now well positioned at the forefront of the emergent natural and organic world, and are a much more diverse company than ever before.” Mr. Genovese added, “Clearly Canadian Brands has a solid foundation for incredible growth in place; tremendous product lines, a world class sales force, distribution and selling agreements with some of the largest retailers in the world, and more than $9 million in free cash to execute our growth initiatives. I look forward to working with the whole team as we move to capitalize on favorable market environments.”
About Clearly Canadian
Based in Vancouver, B.C., Clearly Canadian Brands markets premium alternative beverages, including Clearly Canadian® sparkling flavoured waters and Clearly Canadian dailyEnergy, dailyVitamin and dailyHydration Natural Enhanced Waters which are distributed in the United States, Canada and various other countries. Clearly Canadian’s recent acquisition of DMR Food Corporation and My Organic Baby Inc. marks the Company’s debut into organic and natural products with a full line of organic baby and toddler foods under the brand names My Organic Baby and My Organic Toddler and a wide range of dried fruit and nut snacks offerings from SunRidge Farms, Naturalife, Sweet Selections, Simply by Nature and Glengrove Organics brands. Additional information about Clearly Canadian may be obtained at www.clearly.ca.
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