Maribeth Keeling steps up from her role in the south Liverpool-based group’s cake decoration division with immediate effect

Food and cake decoration ingredients firm Real Good Food has appointed Maribeth Keeling to the role of group chief financial officer.

She steps up from her role in the south Liverpool-based group’s cake decoration division, one of the two profitable, continuing businesses which together now comprise the majority of the stock market-listed business.

Based in Toxteth, the firm employs hundreds of people and exports its products all over the world. It listed on the Alternative Investment Market in 2005.

Ms Keeling has a decade’s experience of working within a variety of listed and private businesses in senior finance, business improvement, integration and company secretarial roles. She will assume her new responsibilities in addition to her current role with immediate effect.

Hugh Cawley, Real Good Food chief executive said: “We are delighted that Maribeth has agreed to assume the role of group CFO and we look forward to working with her to continue the improvement in performance of Real Good Food.”