The Supervisory Board of Beiersdorf in Germany has appointed Stefan De Loecker (51) as Chairman of the Executive Board effective January 1, 2019. He will succeed Stefan F. Heidenreich (55), who will step down from the Executive Board on December 31, 2018.
Stefan De Loecker is a Belgian national and was born in Siegen (Germany) in 1967. After completing studies in Applied Economic Sciences at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, he began his career at the Nestlé Group, where he soon assumed international management responsibilities, initially in Belgium, then at the company’s headquarters in Switzerland and from 2001 in Germany. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé Rossiya, Russia, in 2008. In 2011, he joined Tesco in the UK as COO and later assumed the position of CEO of Tesco Slovakia. He joined Beiersdorf in 2012, initially as Senior Vice President Near East. In 2014, he was appointed to the Executive Board and additionally took charge of the Americas region on April 1, 2016. He was named Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board on July 1, 2018.
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