Huhtamaki Oyj : New Head of Corporate Responsibility at Huhtamaki
January 20, 2017 at 04:38 am
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Wouter van Tol
has been appointed as Head of Corporate Responsibility from January 16, 2017. In this new role Wouter will be responsible for the strategic and long term development of corporate responsibility at Huhtamaki. He will further design and drive our global agenda across the four key dimensions of corporate responsibility: environment, people, product safety and supply chain.
Wouter joins us from Samsung Electronics Europe where he has worked as Director of Sustainability and Citizenship for the last three years. In Samsung, he has been responsible for all aspects of corporate responsibility including human rights, environment, supply chain and senior level stakeholder engagement. Wouter also has a strong background in food and consumer goods businesses as he has worked for Nestlé and Procter & Gamble for 14 years. At Nestlé Wouter led integration of sustainability to brands and core businesses and was responsible for development of sustainable sourcing strategies.
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Huhtamaki Oyj specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing paper, cardboard and plastic packaging. Net sales break down by market as follows:
- outside catering (59.7%): disposable packaging and tableware for the fast-food professionals and vending machine. Net sales break down by geographic area between North America (58.5%) and Europe/Asia/Oceania (41.5%);
- food processing industry and consumer goods (40.3%): flexible packaging, films, molded fiber packaging, etc. for the packaging of food, cosmetics, household products, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Finland (1.8%), the United States (34.9%), Germany (10.5%), the United Kingdom (7.8%), India (6.3%), Turkey (4.2%), Australia (4.2%) , Thailand (3.8%), Poland (3%), South Africa (2.8%), Czech Republic (2.5%), and other (18.2%).