• May 19, 2009

Newell Rubbermaid Inc. has tapped senior Coca-Cola executive Penny McIntyre as group president of office products.

The division accounts for $2 billion of the company's approximately $6 billion in revenues, and includes Sharpie markers and highlighters, Paper Mate pens, Parker and Waterman luxury writing instruments.

McIntyre was most recently SVP of the non-carbonated and new beverages business unit at Coke, and since 2007 the SVP and general manager of water, tea and coffee, Coca-Cola North America.--Karl Greenberg