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Starbucks chooses the CEO of Lysol producer Reckitt

Skylar Williams

Sep 02, 2022 11:18

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Starbucks Corp selected Laxman Narasimhan as its next chief executive officer on Thursday, selecting an entrepreneur credited with revitalizing the Lysol disinfectant company to "reinvent" the world's largest coffee chain.


Reckitt, a corporation that also produces Durex condoms, Enfamil infant formula, and Mucinex cough treatment, was led by Narasimhan as its chief executive officer. Reckitt shares listed on the FTSE fell 4% after he announced his departure from this job earlier in the day.


Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) is seeing volatility. More than 200 of its U.S. stores have unionized in the past year in response to workers' demands for increased benefits and compensation in the face of growing prices.


Despite growing raw material and labor costs, the company is reconsidering its business approach, changing its emphasis from cafés that encouraged lengthy stays to mobile pickup and delivery. In addition, COVID restrictions in China have slowed the American coffee chain's activities in one of its main export markets.


In April 2023, Narasimhan will assume leadership of Starbucks after spending several months studying the company and its "Reinvention" strategy, which involves increasing barista pay, enhancing staff welfare and customer experience, and redesigning locations.


Until then, interim-CEO Howard Schultz, who seized the company's reins for the third time in April following the departure of Kevin Johnson, will continue to lead the corporation.


Schultz characterized Narasimhan as a "strategic and transformational leader" with a wealth of experience in the construction of major consumer brands in a statement to workers.

BALANCED APPROACH

When he joined Reckitt in September 2019, Narasimhan was the first external candidate to assume the company's leadership since Reckitt's inception in 1999.


He led the company through the pandemic, which boosted sales of its health and hygiene products, and more recently through a baby formula issue in the United States, resulting in a rise in this year's annual estimate.


Investors at Reckitt praised the 55-year-old, a former global chief commercial officer at PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP), for his managerial approach after he helped revitalize the company after a sales decline.


Ashish Sinha, portfolio manager at Gabelli, a Reckitt stakeholder, observed, "He took a fairly balanced approach to strategy... he didn't go in guns blazing - he took a very methodical approach to get things right."


Starbucks announced that during the transitional phase, Narasimhan will spend time with Schultz and the management team, working as a barista, meeting employees, and touring manufacturing facilities and coffee farms.


We are surprised that Starbucks choose a successor from outside the discretionary sector, but we are optimistic that Mr. Narasimhan's global insights as CEO of a public multinational organization and background in beverages at PepsiCo would serve the company well in the future.


The coffee chain's stock barely moved in after-hours trade, gaining less than 1%. Since Schultz's interim reinstatement as CEO, the company's stock price has declined by 24%.

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