A veteran consumer products and healthcare lobbyist is set to take the reins of the Grocery Manufacturers Association. The industry group announced Dec. 9 that it has chosen Pamela Bailey as its next CEO. Bailey will take her new post in January, coming from the Personal Care Products Council, the $18 million trade group she’s led since April 2005. She succeeds interim CEO C. Manly Molpus, who had led GMA for 16 years and retired in 2006, a year before GMA’s merger with the Food Products Association. Molpus returned to the trade group this summer after his successor at GMA, Cal Dooley, announced his resignation to lead the American Chemistry Council. Bailey’s selection… Read More