Following appointments have been made in Vaasan & Vaasan Group's
Fresh Bakery Products Business Area, valid from January 1, 2009:
Appointments in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
As Ants Promann
will be responsible for Fresh Bakery Products Business Area, Olli Johansson, currently Finance
Director, will be appointed as Country Manager, Estonia. Rita Ramanauskiene and Vesa Jalava will continue in their present
positions as Country Managers of Lithuania and Latvia.
Appointments in Finland
Kari Lampinen, currently Director in charge of
the Commercial Operations (Finnish Operations), will be appointed as Country
Manager of Finland. He will be responsible for
Fresh Bakery Products, Finland, and of all retail sales and marketing in Vaasan
& Vaasan Oy. Tapio Waris, currently Production
Director of the Finnish Operations, will be appointed as Production Director. Olli Lavikka, currently Product
Development Director of UAB Vilniaus Duona, will be appointed as
Product Development Director of Fresh Bakery Products Business Area. He will be relocated
in Espoo, Finland.
Kari Lampinen, Tapio
Waris
and Olli Lavikka
will report to Ants Promann, Director of Fresh
Bakery Products.
The new management team of
Fresh Bakery Products consists of the following members: Ants Promann,
Kari Lampinen,
Olli Johansson, Rita Ramanauskiene, Vesa
Jalava,
Tapio
Waris
ja Olli Lavikka.
Further information:
CEO Kalle
Tanhuanpää,
Vaasan & Vaasan Group,
tel. +358 204 46 2003
e-mail:
kalle.tanhuanpaa@vaasan.com
Ants Promann, Fresh Bakery Products
Business Area
tel. +372 6504 700
mobile: +372 50 43 357
e-mail: ants.promann@leibur.ee
Vaasan & Vaasan Group
The Vaasan & Vaasan Group is an
international forerunner in the baking industry. It is the leading bakery
company in Finland and the Baltic region. The Group is also the largest thin
crisp and the second-largest crisp bread producer in the world, and a leading
Nordic operator in bake-off products. In 2008 the Group's net sales will be
approximately EUR 416 million. The Group employs some 3,300 people in Finland,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Norway. www.vaasan.com