Edward Alexander has taken over as CEO and managing director of Inghams Group, effective June 29, the company revealed in a securities filing.
Alexander succeeds Andrew Reeves, whose planned retirement, along with Alexander’s then-upcoming promotion, was first announced in December 2024. Reeves will remain with the company through August.
Alexander joined Ingham’s Group in 2015, having held several key leadership roles before being named the chief executive of the company’s New Zealand business.
Prior to joining Ingham’s, he held various roles in risk management, corporate strategy and management for Aon Risk Solutions and Ernst & Young.
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“I am honored by the appointment and excited by the opportunities that we have in front of us as a business,” Alexander said in December. “The company’s long history has been built around a core philosophy of being deeply customer-centric, doing things “the right way” and making bold moves where it makes sense to do so. These principles remain an important foundation for where we are today, and I look forward to leading the business into a new era of sustainable growth.”
Matthew Easton was selected to succeed Alexander as the chief executive of its New Zealand operations, effective March 10. Easton joined Inghams in 2015, initially as a member of the strategy team, before advancing to leadership roles focused on farming and operations. In 2019, he was appointed as general manager, sales and marketing, for the New Zealand business, where he was responsible for driving sales strategies and marketing initiatives.
Inghams, according to the WATTPoultry.com Top Poultry Companies Database, is the largest poultry producer in the Oceania region, producing 229 million birds per year. Inghams operates more than 340 vertically integrated facilities across Australia and New Zealand. It operates 74 breeding farms, 225 broiler farms and nine distribution centers, in addition to numerous feed mills, hatcheries, processing and further processing plants. As one of Australia's largest feed producers, Inghams also makes feed for poultry, horses, dairy cows and pigs.
