Food company Nestle SA has said the Covid-19 pandemic has forced its senior management to become more immersed in daily operations as executives need to deal with safety and business continuity issues, its chief executive told Reuters in an interview.

“From the moment the crisis evolved from a China-only situation to an international crisis, we formed a crisis committee which I chair,” Mark Schneider said on the sidelines of an event at a Nestle dairy research centre near Bern on Monday.

“Management style of everyone in senior management, me included, has become so much more operational as you deal with more operational matters trying to ensure safety and business continuity,” he said, adding the committee was now meeting only once a week, versus twice at the beginning of the crisis.