YAVNE, Israel, October 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (NASDAQ: WILC) (the Company" or
"Willi-Food"), a global company that specializes in the
development, marketing and international distribution of kosher
foods, announced today that Mr. Amir
Kaplan has been appointed as chief financial officer
effective immediately. The Company also announced that Mr.
Yitschak Barabi, the former interim
chief financial officer, has been appointed as controller and
deputy chief financial officer.
Mr. Kaplan served since July 2011
as the CFO of RSL Electronics Ltd., an Israeli public company whose
shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Mr. Kaplan
holds a BA (Accounting & Economic) from Haifa University and MBA (Business Administration)
from Tel-Aviv University.
ABOUT G. WILLI-FOOD INTERNATIONAL LTD.
G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (http://www.willi-food.com) is
an Israeli-based company specializing in high-quality,
great-tasting kosher food products. Willi-Food is engaged directly
and through its subsidiaries in the design, import, marketing and
distribution of over 600 food products worldwide. As one of
Israel's leading food importers,
Willi-Food markets and sells its food products to over 1,500
customers in Israel and around the
world including large retail and private supermarket chains,
wholesalers and institutional consumers. The company's operating
divisions include Willi-Food in Israel and Gold Frost, a wholly owned
subsidiary who designs, develops and distributes branded kosher,
dairy-food products.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 relating to future events or our
future performance, such as statements regarding trends, demand for
our products and expected sales, operating results, and earnings.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results,
levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially
different from any future results, levels of activity, performance
or achievements expressed or implied in those forward-looking
statements. These risks and other factors include but are not
limited to: monetary risks including changes in marketable
securities or changes in currency exchange rates- especially
the NIS/U.S. Dollar exchange rate, payment default by any of our
major clients, the loss of one of more of our key personnel,
changes in laws and regulations, including those relating to the
food distribution industry, and inability to meet and maintain
regulatory qualifications and approvals for our products,
termination of arrangements with our suppliers, in particular Arla
Foods, loss of one or more of our principal clients, increase or
decrease in global purchase prices of food products, increasing
levels of competition in Israel
and other markets in which we do business, changes in economic
conditions in Israel, including in
particular economic conditions in the Company's core markets, our
inability to accurately predict consumption of our products and
changes in consumer preferences, our inability to protect our
intellectual property rights, our inability to successfully
integrate our recent acquisitions, insurance coverage not
sufficient enough to cover losses of product liability claims and
risks associated with product liability claims. We cannot guarantee
future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.
The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and
uncertainties summarized under the heading "Risk Factors" in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended
December 31, 2016, filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on April
27, 2017. These factors are updated from time to time
through the filing of reports and registration statements with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not assume any obligation
to update the forward-looking information contained in this press
release.
Company Contact:
G. Willi - Food International Ltd.
Itsik Barabi
(+972)8-932-1000
Itsik.b@willi-food.co.il
SOURCE G. Willi-Food International Ltd.