DGAP-News: Celesio AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel
Celesio AG: Marion Helmes appointed Celesio's new Chief Financial
Officer
20.12.2011 / 11:00
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Marion Helmes appointed Celesio's new Chief Financial Officer
Stuttgart, 20 December 2011. Today the Supervisory Board of Celesio AG
appointed Marion Helmes the new Chief Financial Officer of the company,
effective from 1 January 2012. In this role, she will be responsible for
Finance and Treasury, Controlling, Accounting, Tax, Human Resources and IT.
Most recently, Marion Helmes was member of the management board (CFO) at
Q-Cells AG, Bitterfeld-Wolfen. At Celesio, she is replacing Christian
Holzherr, who left the company as of 30 November 2011 on his own
initiative.
Jürgen Kluge, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Celesio: 'The
Supervisory Board selected the CFO candidate with great care, in a highly
intensive process. We are very happy to announce that as a result Marion
Helmes will join Celesio as our new Chief Financial Officer. Helmes has
extensive international experience and expertise, mainly in the areas of
finance and controlling as well as corporate development. This makes her an
ideal addition to Celesio's Management Board, to master the challenges that
lie ahead.'
Marion Helmes, who holds a doctorate in business administration, was born
in Emmerich in 1965. She started her career at the German privatisation
agency Treuhandanstalt Berlin. After having held various positions with an
international consulting firm, she joined the controlling division of
Fried. Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp, Essen, in 1997. After the merger with Thyssen
AG, she was appointed Vice President Corporate Development at Budd Company,
Detroit (U.S.) in 2000, which was then the largest foreign subsidiary of
the ThyssenKrupp Group.
In 2003 Marion Helmes assumed the management of the central Mergers &
Acquisitions division at ThyssenKrupp AG in Düsseldorf. In April 2005 she
was appointed CFO and member of the management board at ThyssenKrupp
Stainless AG, Duisburg, and assumed the same function at ThyssenKrupp
Elevator AG, Düsseldorf, in October 2006
In July 2010, Marion Helmes was appointed CFO of Q-Cells, where she was
responsible for Controlling/Accounting, Treasury/Corporate Finance,
Investor Relations, Tax, Internal Audit and IT.
Press contact
Dr Jens Schreiber, Celesio AG, +49 (0)711.5001-380
media@celesio.com
Rainer Berghausen, Celesio AG, +49 (0)711.5001-549
media@celesio.com
About Celesio Group
Celesio is one of the leading international service providers within the
pharmaceutical and healthcare markets. We are active in 27 countries
worldwide and employ approximately 47,000 employees in our three divisions
Patient and Consumer Solutions, Pharmacy Solutions and Manufacturer
Solutions. Just under 2,300 of Celesio's own retail pharmacies, as part of
Patient and Consumer Solutions, serve around half a million customers every
day. In our wholesale activities, the core business of Pharmacy Solutions,
more than 130 wholesale branches deliver to over 65,000 pharmacies - day
in, day out. In the Manufacturer Solutions division, we offer
pharmaceutical manufacturers logistics, marketing and sales solutions and
operate in the area of Efficient Care Pharma.
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Language: English
Company: Celesio AG
Neckartalstr. 155
70376 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)711 5001-735
Fax: +49 (0)711 5001-736
E-mail: investor@celesio.com
Internet: www.celesio.com
ISIN: DE000CLS1001
WKN: CLS100
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt (Prime
Standard), München, Stuttgart; Freiverkehr in Hamburg,
Hannover; Terminbörse EUREX
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