New Belgium promotes marketing exec to CEO

FORT COLLINS — New Belgium Brewing Co. has elevated one of its existing executives to the CEO chair. 

Shaun Belongie, the Fort Collins-based legacy craft beer company’s chief marketing officer, has been tapped to take over from former CEO Steve Fechheimer, who left New Belgium this summer.

Danielle McLarnon served as NB’s interim CEO for the past few months. 

Lion Little World Beverages Ltd., the Australian subsidiary of Japanese beer conglomerate Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd. that bought New Belgium four years ago, conducted an “extensive search and interview process, assessing a range of both internal…