Jack Pelo will retire from top executive role at Swire Coca-Cola USA
Rob Gehring will assume president, CEO position beginning Jan. 1, 2021
Swire Coca-Cola USA, Draper, Utah, announced that Jack Pelo, its president and chief executive officer (CEO) for the past 24 years, will retire at the end of this year. Rob Gehring, currently chief operating officer, will assume the president and CEO role beginning Jan. 1, 2021.
Under Pelo’s leadership, Swire Coca-Cola USA has grown to become a top, data-driven manufacturer, distributor and seller of Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, Monster Energy and Body Armor products in the United States. When Pelo became president and CEO in 1996, Swire Coca-Cola USA employed close to 1,600 people in the intermountain west. Now, the company has 7,200 employees in 13 states that stretch between the Mexican and Canadian borders and from the Pacific Ocean to the plains of Nebraska.