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Marco van Leeuwen succeeds Anton van Doornmalen as Rijk Zwaan's commercial director

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De Lier, The Netherlands
July 1, 2009

On 1 July, Marco van Leeuwen officially joined the Board of Directors of vegetable breeding company Rijk Zwaan in De Lier. He will concentrate in particular on production, logistics and commercial affairs.

Marco van Leeuwen (38) succeeds Anton van Doornmalen, and together with Ben Tax and Kees Reinink he now forms the three-headed management, which operates on a basis of collegiality and is jointly responsible for the entire enterprise, with each member having his own attention area. Ben Tax has taken over the chairmanship from Anton van Doornmalen.

Marco van Leeuwen, employed by Rijk Zwaan since 1993, has held the position of assistant-director for the past five years. During that time he was involved, among other things, in setting up and developing Rijk Zwaan Italy and was interim director of Rijk Zwaan Nederland. After an extensive familiarisation period he is looking forward to his new challenge: “In spite of the present consolidation battles among breeding companies, we want to keep Rijk Zwaan growing under its own steam. Major challenges in this will be in particular investments in Research & Development and continued international expansion. Due to the fact that new varieties are being developed ever faster, marketing and efficiency will also start to play a bigger part.”

Anton van Doornmalen remains a shareholder in Rijk Zwaan and will continue to be active within the company in the coming years. He will, for instance, become chairman of the Advisory Council and continue to represent the company in trade organisations Plantum, ESA and ISF. He expects that his succession is in capable hands with Marco van Leeuwen: “Marco has the ability to keep a good overall view and, where necessary, implement structure. Combined with his broad, international experience he is in the perfect starting position to give further form to the commercial development of our company.”

 

 

 

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