AUSTIN, Minn. – Hormel Foods announced Mark Coffey will assume the role of vice president of supply chain, and Mark Morey will be vice president of affiliated business units in Refrigerated Foods.

The personnel changes are the result of the upcoming retirement of Bryan Farnsworth, senior vice president of supply chain.

Mark Coffey, vice president of supply chain

Coffey most recently served as vice president of affiliated business units in Refrigerated Foods, a role he has held since 2011. He began his career with Hormel in 1985 as a relief foreman at the company's former Ottumwa, Iowa, facility. He held various relief foreman and foreman positions before becoming the supervisor of sausage and cured and smoked meats at the company’s Atlanta facility in 1989. Coffey moved to the corporate office two years later as the product manufacturing manager for cured and smoked meats, followed by the product manufacturing manager for fresh sausage and linear programs in 1993. From 1995 to 2011, Coffey served as plant manager for the former Houston, Texas facility, Dold Foods in Wichita, Kansas, Osceola (Iowa) Food, the Fremont, Nebraska, facility and then the Austin plant.

Mark Morey, vice president of affiliated business units in Refrigerated Foods

Morey was the former president of Hormel’s Farmer John business, which recently was acquired by Smithfield Foods for $145 million in cash. Morey started at Hormel in 1993 as a meat products sales representative in Dallas, Texas. The same year, he became a territory manager in Minneapolis. In 1994, Morey was elevated to meat products product manager at Hormel’s former Dubuque (Iowa) Foods facility and in 1995, he became a regional foodservice sales manager for Dubuque Foods in Boston. He returned to the corporate office in 1998 as the product manager of fresh pork. He became the director of marketing, Precept Foods in 2000, and six years later he became a group product manager in meat products. In 2008, he advanced to director of fresh meats marketing and general manager of Precept Foods. Morey was named president of Dan’s Prize in 2009 before assuming the role of president of Farmer John in 2015.

Hormel also announced the retirement of Larry Lyons, senior vice president of human resources.

“Congratulations to both Larry and Bryan on their retirements. We greatly appreciate their leadership and dedication over the years and wish each of them the best,” Jim Snee, president and CEO said in a statement. “In addition, I’d like to congratulate Mark Coffey and Mark Morey on their new roles. We look forward to their leadership and expertise in these areas.”