Task
- Lead the management and sales team during the “turnaround process“
- Ensureimprovement / standardisation of systems
- Ensure margin improvement for contracts winter season key customers LEH
Industry/ Function / Environment / Expert
- Marketing of regional fruit and vegetable crops, total turnover approx. 1.8 billion €, > 3000 employees
- Interim CEO/CRO/CSO
- Joint management of the group of companies with thetwo already active managing directors, who are also minority shareholders
- Responsible implementation of the defined restructuring projects (warehouse, IT, cost reduction) from restructuring reports
- Coordination of the restructuring measures in the ongoing business as well as development measures of the subgroup Fruit & Vegetables
- Responsible identification and implementation of further cost reduction potentials
- Define and implement measures to optimise thewholesale store
- Total savings fromrestructuring concept: € 1,235 million
- Total savings fromfurther sbA’s: 206 K€
- Totalsavings overall: 1,441 m €
- Positive continuation forecast due to successful implementation of measures
- Leading vegetable wholesaler in northern Germany.
- Marketing of fruit and vegetables from over 160 producers in the region
- Trading platform for goods from other European countries
- Turnover: approx. 170 million €
- 200 employees