Gerolsteiner hires Henkel exec as new CEO

German mineral waters shaper Gerolsteiner has appointed Nils Hemmerle arsenic its caller CEO.

He takes implicit from Roel Annega who is leaving the concern astatine the extremity of August.

The radical announced Annega's departure earlier this year, which it past said was owed to “personal reasons”.

Hemmerle joins Gerolsteiner from location and hairsbreadth attraction products concern Henkel Consumer Brands, wherever helium is managing manager for the company's operations successful cardinal and eastbound Europe.

Since joining Henkel successful 2004, Hemmerle has besides been vice president of income for Europe astatine the concern and held different elder marketing, income and absorption roles, Gerolsteiner said.

Dr Stefan Schmitz, president of the Gerolsteiner advisory board, said: "His [Hemmerle's] much than 20 years of acquisition successful sales, marketing, and wide absorption roles, arsenic good arsenic his expertise successful processing and managing beardown brands, are an perfect acceptable for the adjacent steps successful our firm strategy and the enlargement of our mineral h2o and brushed portion segments.”

Gerolsteiner produces a scope of mineral waters sold nether its ain brand. Its portfolio besides includes spritzers, lemonades, flavoured waters and cola-based drinks.

Founded successful 1888, the institution employs much than 850 people.

German brewery Bitburger Group holds a bulk involvement successful Gerolsteiner. Industrial gases supplier Buse KSW GmbH & Co. owns 32% and the remaining equity is successful backstage escaped float.

Hammerle said: “Gerolsteiner already demonstrates successful galore areas what entrepreneurial courageousness and continuous improvement tin look similar successful practice. I americium precise excited to go portion of specified an ambitious institution with a unsocial marque and to assistance signifier its aboriginal development.”

The radical posted its yearly results for 2025 successful February. In the year, it saw revenues turn 2.7% to €348.8m ($411.6m) and income volumes emergence 3.4% to 8.3 cardinal hectolitres.

"This means Gerolsteiner is performing supra the marketplace mean overall", it said astatine the time.

In the year, its halfway concern was "in enactment with the market", it said. Citing Nielsen data, the institution said income volumes roseate 0.9% and gross accrued 3%.

“The results amusement that we are mounting the close priorities with our innovation strategy,” Annega said astatine the time. “As marketplace leader, we are systematically processing our portfolio and investing successful brand, production, energy, and processes arsenic the instauration for semipermanent competitiveness – successful a marketplace that is structurally evolving and wherever user preferences are progressively changing.”

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