{"id":44121,"date":"2021-03-01T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zigarren.zone\/?p=44121"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:07:30","slug":"new-director-gert-kamphuis-at-villiger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zigarren.zone\/en\/neuer-direktor-gert-kamphuis-bei-villiger\/","title":{"rendered":"New director Gert Kamphuis at Villiger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gert Kamphuis becomes Director of Marketing & Sales<\/strong> Export and sales companies abroad<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pfeffikon\/LU, 01 March 2021 - In order to meet the growing global challenges, the management responsibility of the companies will be spread over additional shoulders: The Board of Directors of Villiger S\u00f6hne AG has appointed Gert Kamphuis as an additional Director of Villiger S\u00f6hne AG (Switzerland) and Managing Director of Villiger S\u00f6hne GmbH (Germany) as of 1 March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What impetus should Gert Kamphuis provide?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gert Kamphuis represents the companies together with the three directors \/ managing directors Mirko Lorenzi, Egon Schwerdtle-von Delft and Clemens G\u00fctermann.\u00a0<\/strong>Kamphuis will be the new Director \/ Managing Director of the two Villiger Group companies responsible for \u201eMarketing & Sales Export and Sales Companies Abroad\u201c. \u201eKamphuis will provide the companies with increased impetus for business development and expansion in exports and manage the sales companies abroad \u201eVilliger France\u201c and \u201eVilliger North America\u201c,\u201c says Heinrich Villiger, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Villiger S\u00f6hne AG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Gert Kamphuis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kamphuis, an economics graduate, has 34 years of international business experience in the cigar industry. For the last 10 years, he successfully served as Export Manager of the Villiger Group. Prior to that, he was Managing Director in various countries and Vice President Sales Continental Division at Swedish Match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201eI am looking forward to the new tasks and will ensure the continuation of our success with our professional team. My aim is for us to grow even faster and more profitably in export and abroad in order to strengthen the importance of the international VILLIGER brands in the machine and handmade sector,\u201e emphasises Gert Kamphuis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eWith Gert Kamphuis, another expert and high performer with sound international professional experience is taking on additional management responsibility. Particularly against the background of international growth, the distribution of management responsibility across broader shoulders is especially important in order to continue to optimally serve our core markets and at the same time create resources for new markets and continuous creative and innovative growth,\u201c emphasises Heinrich Villiger, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Villiger S\u00f6hne AG.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Villiger<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Founded in 1888, the\u00a0Villiger Group<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is a Swiss family business in its third and fourth generation that operates internationally in the tobacco business. The Group employs around 1600 people worldwide and generates annual sales of around CHF 200 million. Swiss production is based in Pfeffikon\/LU. The German subsidiary Villiger S\u00f6hne GmbH has production facilities in Waldshut-Tiengen (Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg) and in B\u00fcnde\/D\u00fcnne (Westphalia). Villiger do Brasil in S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo dos Campos (Bahia) produces hand-rolled premium cigars. At PT Villiger Tobacco Indonesia on the island of Java, tobacco wrapper leaves are prepared for production in Europe. Villiger North America, Inc. is responsible for distribution in the United States, the world's largest cigar market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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