Gerard De Geer joins the Board of Nobia
At today's general meeting of Nobia AB Gerard De Geer was elected to the Board of the company. Christian Lorenzen left the Board.
Gerard De Geer, born in 1949, has been working as Director Operations & Business Control at Industri Kapital since 2001. Previously he spent seven years as Vice President and Head of Swedish Operations with the management consultancy A.T. Kearney, and prior to that he held a number of senior positions within manufacturing industry in Scandinavia.
De Geer was educated at the Stockholm School of Economics and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Other board positions that he holds include the vice chairmanship of Lindex AB and membership of the boards of MacGregor International AB, AB Elektrokoppar and Addtek International Oy.
The Board of Nobia is made up of Hans Larsson (Chairman), Harald Mix, Fredrik Cappelen (President and CEO, Nobia), Gerard De Geer, Karsten Bomann Jonsen, Wilhelm Laurén, Thomas Nilsson, Staffan Schéle, Flemming Østergaard and Erik Larsson.
Nobia AB
3 April 2002
3 April 2002
Further information:
Hans Larsson, Chairman, tel. +46 (0)70-592 92 55
Katarina Sivander, Communications Manager, tel. +46 (0)8-440 16 07, +46 (0)70-247 16 07
Hans Larsson, Chairman, tel. +46 (0)70-592 92 55
Katarina Sivander, Communications Manager, tel. +46 (0)8-440 16 07, +46 (0)70-247 16 07
See also Nobia's website www.nobia.se
Nobia is Europe's leading kitchen company with sales in 2001 amounting to SEK 8,3 billion and just over 6 000 employees. The Group has strong brands and its sales mainly through specialised kitchen studios. The units in the UK account for 42 per cent of the Group's pro forma sales, the Nordic countries for 32 per cent and Continental Europe for 26 per cent. Nobia leads the modernisation of the kitchen industry with an industrial approach, which includes co-ordination of production and purchasing as well as internal benchmarking. Owners of Nobia are Industri Kapital, Skanska, Norsk Kjøkken Invest and management.
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