New CEO at Nestlé ice cream unit

Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings, a US unit of food giant Nestle, has named COO Timothy Kahn as its president and CEO.

Kahn will replace the company’s chairman and CEO Gary Rogers, who will retire at the end of the year. Kahn joined Dreyer’s as CFO in 1998, and was appointed executive vice president and COO in 2003, when Nestle took a 67% stake in the company.