CORPORATE NEWS:
Mittal streamlines European business structure
To form one unified European business structure Mittal Steel has merged its Central, Eastern and Western European Operations. The steel giant’s business is now focused across three distinct regions: the Americas, Europe and ‘Rest of the World’.
Mittal’s statement continues: “In light of this new structure the combined European business organisation will assume responsibility for the operational management of all European business units and the implementation of the business plan across this region, further improving Mittal Steel’s competitive position in Europe and ensuring that the company captures all possible synergistic opportunities. This new structure will help Mittal Steel to build on its existing position as Europe’s second largest steel producer.”
Members of the senior management team of the newly-structured Mittal Steel Europe are: Roeland Baan, Chief Executive Officer; Gerhard Renz, Chief Operating Officer; Hans Kerkhoven, Chief Financial Officer and Dr Olaf Roman Von Engelhardt, Vice-President Sales & Marketing (Long Products).
Senior management personnel across Mittal Steel’s various European units are now as follows: Frantisek Chowaniec, Chief Executive Officer, Mittal Steel Poland and Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Mittal Steel Ostrava (Czech Republic); Gregor Munstermann, Chief Executive Officer, Mittal Steel Ostrava; K A P Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Mittal Steel Galati (Romania); Hans Rosenstock, Chief Operating Officer, Mittal Steel Galati; Lutz Bandusch, Chief Executive Officer, Mittal Steel
Hamburg; Bernd Webersinke, Chief Executive Officer, Mittal Steel Ruhrort
and Mittal Steel Hochfeld; and Bernard Laupretre, Chief Executive Officer,
Mittal Steel Gandrange and Tréfileurope.
Further managerial changes in the company include: Narendra Chaudhary, Corporate Director for Operations and Maintenance based in Mittal Steel’s London office; Vijay Bhatnagar, Chief Operating Officer, Mittal Steel Temirtau (Kazakhstan); Jose Fernandez, Chief Operating Officer, Mittal Steel Lazaro Cardenas (Mexico) and Ismael Sandoval, Chief Operating Officer, Mittal Steel Point Lisas (Trinidad).
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