Bigelow considers hiring CIO to boost growth
Bigelow Tea may be looking to add a Chief Information Officer to its executive ranks, according to company CFO and Executive Vice President. The move would allow Bigelow to make greater strategic use of IT in order to improve technology efficiency and drive business growth. The CIO would also be responsible for overseeing company's website architecture, as well as business software systems that retailers and distributors use to place orders. At the moment, the company employs 340 people, yet only nine of them are devoted to IT matters and are having trouble coming to grips with various demands related to information technologies. Bigelow Tea was founded in 1945 and has manufacturing plants in Connecticut, Kentucky and Idaho. It sells 75 million boxes of tea per year through various retail outlets.