Hoersholm, 2013-07-03 08:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Company announcement no.18/2013
Chr. Hansen changes the regional structure of its commercial organization in order to align geographies and to provide a stronger strategic focus.
The future regions will be: EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Americas (North America and Latin America) and APAC (Asia-Pacific). Each region will be headed up by a Group Vice President and they will report directly to CEO Cees de Jong.
“A customer-centric approach is very important to a company like ours and we should constantly organize ourselves to fit the market most diligently. With this change, we move the decision making at corporate leadership level even closer to the local execution,” says Cees de Jong, CEO.
The regional reorganization entails a change in the management structure. In addition to the Executive Board members, Cees de Jong, Klaus Pedersen, Knud Vindfeldt, Henrik Dalbøge, Carsten Bennike and Jesper Allentoft, the Corporate Leadership Team will consist of Winnie Büegel, Compliance, Christian Barker, Strategic Development (both members today) and the new Group Vice Presidents Jacob Vishof Paulsen, EMEA, David Carpenter, Americas and Sten Estrup, APAC.
