Christine Bense 2011
Food Manufacture readers voted Christine Bense as the 2011 Personality of the Year, following an impressive spell as plant director for Kraft Foods’ Banbury coffee plant.
Bense was instrumental in getting staff at Banbury to embrace the huge challenges facing the sector. She presided over major changes to raise productivity and introduce environmental improvements.
She was so successful during her time at Banbury that she was whisked off to spread her magic at another Kraft plant in the US and could not attend the awards ceremony.
Two years on, and Bense is currently the plant manager at Kraft Foods’ largest manufacturing facility worldwide in Champaign, Illinois in the US.