Nick Friend, 52, has been appointed Business Unit Manager of Hygena with 151 kitchen stores in France and three in Spain. He succeeds Daniel Souissi, 60, who after more than six years with Hygena will leave the Nobia Group. Nick Friend has worked at Nobia for three years and his positions have included Head of Gower in the UK.

 

Nobia AB

28 April 2009

 

 

Preben Bager, President and CEO, or

Ingrid Yllmark, Director Communications & IR
Telephone +46 8 440 16 00 or +46 708 65 59 00

 

 

Nobia is the company behind several strong European kitchen brands, such as Magnet in the UK, HTH in the Nordic countries and Poggenpohl internationally. The Group manufactures and sells complete kitchen solutions and generates value by utilising economies of scale. Nobia has approximately 8,500 employees and net sales of about SEK 16 billion. The Nobia share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm under the short name NOBI. For more information visit www.nobia.com.