Catharina Bengtsson appointed Director of Supply Chain

​Clas Ohlson has appointed Catharina Bengtsson as Director of Supply Chain. Catharina Bengtsson will be a member of Group Management.

Catharina joins us from the position as Business Development Manager at IKEA. She has broad international commercial experience, both in supply chain and retail, after working in several different markets and globally at IKEA. Within Supply Chain in particular, she has driven distribution centres in France, been responsible for retail logistics in the Swedish market and worked with strategic business development from a global perspective.

“I am very happy to present Catharina Bengtsson as Director of Supply Chain at Clas Ohlson. Catharina will have a key role in planning and managing an efficient supply chain that will support the company’s business operations all the way from supplier, via the distribution centre and stores, to the customer, in existing and new markets. I also know that Catharina will contribute a great deal of international experience and knowledge to the company,” says Klas Balkow, President and CEO of Clas Ohlson.

“Clas Ohlson is a fantastic company with a strong culture and is currently in a very exciting development phase on route to Europe. I am eagerly looking forward to contributing my experience from similar processes to Clas Ohlson’s future development,” says Catharina Bengtsson, new Director of Supply Chain.

Catharina Bengtsson will assume her new position not later than 1 October 2010.

For more information, please contact:
Klas Balkow, President and CEO, +46 (0)247 – 446 88
Catharina Bengtsson, +46 (0)732 – 32 10 35

Clas Ohlson AB is a Swedish chain store that sells, amongst other things, hardware, electrical, multimedia, and home and leisure products. It is the largest hardware chain in Scandinavia. The company was founded in 1918 by the technically-minded Clas Ohlson (1895–1979), as a mail order business based in the Swedish village of Insjön, Dalarna. Initially, only manuals and technical literature were sold. He opened his first shop in Insjön in 1926 and there are now stores throughout Sweden, as well as in Norway and Finland. In 2008, the company opened its first store in the United Kingdom, in Croydon, south London. There are now stores at the Arndale Centre in Manchester, at The Harlequin in Watford, in Kingston upon Thames, Reading, Liverpool and Leeds.