Page 26 - Glass Machinery Plants & Accessories no. 3/2018

businessnews

www .g lassonline.com

VERALLIA GROUP Paris stock exchanges in our company’s business
mid-2013. In late 2016, strategy,” said Michel
NEW CFO APPOINTMENT Didier was appointed Giannuzzi, Chairman
Administrative and and CEO of the Verallia
Verallia Packaging financial management of Financial Director Group.
S.A.S. announces the Faurecia Echappement at Zodiac Aerospace Verallia is one of the
appointment of the new in 2002 and Inergy where it also oversaw IT world’s top three
Group’s Chief Financial Automotive in 2005. and Legal. During his manufacturers of glass
Officer and Corporate More recently in 2009, tenure at Zodiac, Didier packaging for food and
Planning Director, Didier Didier joined Plastic had a leading role in beverages, and proposes
Fontaine. Omnium as Executive driving the merger with innovative, customized
Didier Fontaine will also Vice President, Safran, reorganizing the and environmentally
be in charge of finance, Administration and Group and significantly friendly solutions. Verallia
purchasing and IT. He Finance, where he deleveraging the company. produced around 16
will be a member of the actively participated to Didier graduated from billion glass bottles and
Executive Committee. the transformation of Sciences Po Paris in Tax jars in 2016. Verallia’s
Didier began his career the Group during the and Finance and holds business model is based
in 1987 in the banking automobile crisis, leading a Higher Diploma in on combining the
sector in Canada and to a significant and Econometrics from the strength of its global
Brazil in corporate and sustainable improvement University of Lyon. network (manufacturing
project finance. He joined of the financial results. “I am delighted to operations in 13
Schlumberger in 1995 In 2012, Didier was welcome Didier onto countries, with 5 technical
as Head of Treasury appointed Chief Financial Verallia’s Executive centres and 13 product
Europe-Latin America Officer and Head of Committee. His financial development centres)
and then held various Purchasing and IT at and industrial expertise and local customer
financial management Constellium, where he and experience will make relationships in all regions.
positions. He took over successfully led its IPO a valuable contribution In 2016, Verallia achieved
the administrative and on the New York and to the deployment of net sales of EUR 2.4bn.

At the beginning of 2018, Sorg started ‘Project 100’ – a SORG
competition of the 100 best ideas concerning the topic
‘company of the future’. PROJECT 100 – LINING
All Sorg employees at the Lohr and Gemünden sites aged
30 or younger have been as ked to present their ideas and UP FOR THE FUTURE
projects to a four-member jury (consisting of Alexander
Sorg, Arjen Steiner, Robert Daniels and Jürgen Werner). WITH YOUNG IDEAS
Whether focusing on work in general, industries, products,
business models – each and every idea is valuable. end of the project, the three best ideas or concepts will
Throughout the whole competition period, which will be awarded. Sorg organized this competition because it
involve the 100 best ideas, Daniels and Steiner will be realized that the future orientation of the company must be
available to the participants as mentors and are open for supported more intensely. And when it comes to the future,
any questions, but also for requests and suggestions from the next generation is in demand.
the young employees. Besides idea finding, conception and The younger employees should get involved, bring in fresh
procedure this also concerns the design of the room (or ideas as well as go od suggestions and actively help shape
think tank, if you like), which will be made available to the the company. Questioning time- honoured practices,
competitors this year. Creative minds are thus given space re?thinking and changing things we are used to is the
and time to experiment and run freely creatively as well as motto. The executives are sure that the company can
to fully exploit their potential. only benefit from new, different and young perspectives.
During the competition, the jury will make a preselection Sorg aims at using the creative potential of the younger
from the ideas submitted. employees both in and out of the box.
The participants, who thus made it to the next round, The project is definitely not going to be a one-hit wonder,
are invited to a weekend trip, where they be able to share but will remain part of the Sorg philosophy in the years to
their ideas and work on their concepts together with come. It is planned to bring up the project in the following
the management. The company is keen to develop and years on a larger scale and to include other areas besides
elaborate the submitted ideas – for the future. At the the Lohr and Gemünden sites.

glass machinery plants & accessories 3/2018
24