Amy Lance Appointed Private Label Director, UK & Ireland at Kerry
London, United Kingdom / 22, June 2026 / Kerry
Driving Retail Growth Through Science Led Innovation and Sustainable Nutrition
Amy Lance has joined Kerry as Private Label Director for the UK & Ireland, bringing extensive experience across retail, private label, sourcing, and category leadership.
Her appointment comes at a time of significant transformation across the retail landscape. Retailers are navigating a complex set of challenges, from HFSS legislation and reformulation demands to cost inflation, sustainability commitments, and growing competition from discounters. At the same time, consumer behaviours are evolving rapidly, driven by increased health awareness and emerging influences such as GLP-1 medications, which are reshaping purchasing patterns, portion expectations, and nutritional needs.
Solving Complexity Through Science-Led Innovation
Kerry operates at the forefront of these challenges, helping customers turn complexity into opportunity. Its integrated, science led approach combines leading capabilities across taste, flavour, biotechnology, fermentation, enzymes, preservation, and nutrition.
This unique breadth enables retailers to improve product performance across multiple dimensions enhancing nutrition, reducing cost and waste, simplifying ingredient declarations, and improving sustainability while maintaining the exceptional taste that consumers expect.
From Insight to Launch: Accelerating Retail Innovation
A key point of difference for Kerry lies in its ability to support customers from insight through to product launch. By combining deep consumer understanding, proprietary research, and world-class R&D expertise, Kerry helps retailers rapidly develop and scale products aligned to evolving market demands.
This end-to-end capability allows customers to accelerate speed-to-market, reduce risk, and stay ahead in a fast-moving and highly competitive environment.
Delivering Sustainable Nutrition Without Compromise
At the core of Kerry’s strategy is its vision to create a world of sustainable nutrition developing food and beverage solutions that are healthier, more affordable, and environmentally sustainable, without compromising on taste. Through science-backed tools and solutions, Kerry supports customers in achieving their sustainability and nutrition goals, while helping to reduce environmental impact and food waste across the value chain.
Strengthening Strategic Retail Partnerships
In her new role, Lance will focus on building long-term private label partnerships across the UK and Ireland. Her priorities include translating Kerry’s global capabilities into tailored retail solutions, supporting innovation pipelines, and aligning strategies to the evolving needs of retailers and consumers. She looks forward to working closely with Kerry’s teams and customers to unlock growth opportunities and help shape the future of food and retail across the region.
About Kerry
Kerry is a global leader in taste and nutrition, partnering with customers to create healthier, tastier, and more sustainable food and beverage solutions consumed by over one billion people worldwide.
Amy Lance is a commercial leader with 18 years experience driving growth, leading strategic change and delivering transformation across retail, consumer and hospitality sectors.
Experienced in shaping strategy, unlocking commercial performance and leading cross functional programmes spanning category, customer experience, operating model design, supply chain, omnichannel transformation. Proven track record of delivering change at scale, balancing short-term performance with long-term value creation & strategy.
Known for building strong partnerships across functions, translating strategy into execution & creating clarity in complex environments. Passionate about developing high-performing teams, investing in innovation, using data, insight & customer understanding to drive sustainable growth.
