JARNO JÄRVINEN APPOINTED MANAGING DIRECTOR OF APETIT KALA OY
LÄNNEN TEHTAAT PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 21 August 2008 1:00 pm
JARNO JÄRVINEN APPOINTED MANAGING DIRECTOR OF APETIT KALA OY
Jarno Järvinen, age 49, is to be the Managing Director of Apetit Kala Oy as of 1
September 2008.
Järvinen has considerable experience of the retail trade and the food industry.
Within the Lännen Tehtaat Group he has occupied managerial positions in frozen
food and fish sales and in marketing since 1996. From 1995 until 2004 he was
also Managing Director of Tresko Fish Oy and responsible for Lännen Tehtaat's
fish business.
Järvinen will report to Sami Haapasalmi, head of Lännen Tehtaat's Fish business.
The drive to improve internal efficiency and to develop core processes at Apetit
Kala, begun last autumn, has proceeded as planned. Labour and raw material
productivity have improved, and the targets for delivery reliability in Apetit
Kala's production have been achieved. In the future, the focus will be on
further developing the customer and consumer-orientation of the operations,
expanding the fish product business and improving profitability.
Apetit Kala Oy is a subsidiary of Lännen Tehtaat plc. It produces, markets and
sells processed fish products under both the Apetit brand and private labels,
and sells fresh fish, fish products and other fresh products at its Kalatori
service counters. Apetit Kala's operations are based at Kuopio and Kerava. In
2007, its net sales amounted to approximately EUR 56 million, and the company
employed an average of 290 people.
LÄNNEN TEHTAAT PLC
Matti Karppinen
CEO
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