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New Senior Management Appointment - Hard Flooring
New Senior Management Appointment - Hard Flooring.
About this update from Victoria Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 0684F Victoria PLC 15 May 2017 \n\nRNS Reach\nFor Immediate Release 15 May 2017 \n \nVictoria PLC\n('Victoria' or the 'Group')\nNew Senior Management Appointment for Hard Flooring\n \n \nVictoria PLC, (LSE: VCP) the international designers, manufacturers and distributors of innovative flooring, is delighted to announce the non-Board appointment of Jan Debrouwere as the Group's Director of Business Development - Hard Flooring, with immediate effect, reporting directly to the Group's CEO, Philippe Hamers.\n \nJan brings with him 28 years' expertise in manufacturing, selling and marketing of all kinds of hard flooring - a product group which represents significant growth potential for Victoria. \n \nA focused entrepreneur, with a passion for product development, design and innovation, Jan's appointment is an important step as the Group seeks to secure customers, suppliers and acquisitions to gain market share in the growing hard flooring market. \n \nFor the last four years, Jan headed the successful turnaround of Beaulieu International Group's (BIG) worldwide hard flooring business, a multi-product, multi-national division with a turnover of €500m, overseeing multiple production sites and sales teams in Russia, USA and Europe. In this role, he initiated and oversaw multi-million Euro greenfield start-ups to produce LVT and sheet vinyl both in Europe and the USA. He was also pivotal to the acquisition and successful integration of one of Russia's largest flooring distributors into BIG.\n \nPrior to this role, Jan held senior management positions at IVC (part of Mohawk Industries Inc.), Domo (acquired by Balta Group in 2010) and Tarkett. Jan has a law degree from the University of Ghent, Belgium and is multi-lingual in Dutch, English, French and German.\n \n \nGeoff Wilding, Ch...