Bacardi appoints communications officer

Bacardi has appointed Eric Kraus, 51, to a newly created role of senior VP chief communications and corporate affairs officer, responsible for corporate communications, external affairs, and corporate responsibility functions globally. He will join the company by January 28.

Kraus wasmost recently VP corporate communications and public affairs at Covidien and has held similar communications roles at Gillette and Procter & Gamble, Miller Brewing Company, Scitex America, two PR agencies, and been a reporter for the Boston Herald.