Kantar Aus Names Innovation and Product Development Head

In Australia, Kantar has promoted Carla Bonifacio to the role of Head of Innovation and Product Development.

Based in Melbourne, Bonifacio (pictured) has more than fifteen years' research experience with clients across the food, beverages, FMCG, and retail sectors. Before joining Kantar two years ago as a Director, Sensory, she spent a short time at Colmar Brunton, working as Business Unit Leader, FMCG (Melbourne). Prior to this, she worked in-house for toy manufacturer Mattel as Associate Manager, Insights and Analytics; and Schweppes as Category Insights Manager, and earlier, she spent several years at Nielsen.

Commenting on the promotion, Jon Foged, Kantar Australia MD, said: 'Carla has a real passion for innovation, is a problem solver and a very commercially and strategically focused leader who will take our innovation domain to the next level. She'll be a strategic partner to our Consulting, Qualitative, Sensory, Analytics and Kantar Marketplace teams across areas such as growth strategy and demand space; ideation; idea, concept and packaging testing; taste and sensorial evaluation; pricing; portfolio optimization; forecasting and volumetrics. I am delighted to have her lead our innovation capability.'

Web site: www.kantaraustralia.com .