New PHW board for alternative protein sources
Rechterfeld, June 2018. On July 1, 2018, Marcus Keitzer (43), a graduate in business administration and chartered financial analyst and currently authorized signatory at the PHW Group, will be appointed to the new board for corporate development / M & A / investment management and corporate law. In this role, Marcus Keitzer will also be responsible for the newly created area of alternative protein sources.
In his current position, Marcus Keitzer oversaw numerous transactions in Germany and abroad. These include strategic acquisitions in Europe and the sale of Lohmann Animal Health to a strategic US investor. Between 2011 and 2014, the native of Giessen worked in the M&A area at a strategic unit of Qatar Holding (Sovereign Wealth Fund), where he was involved in numerous acquisitions, especially in Asia. Marcus Keitzer began his career in 2003 in auditing at PwC in Frankfurt and then worked in the Transaction Services department at KPMG in Frankfurt and Qatar.
"We decided to appoint Marcus Keitzer to our Board not only because of his excellent technical skills, strategic competence and human integrity, but also to give special importance to the topic of alternative sources of protein both internally and externally." Marcus Keitzer was We have also been instrumental in our investment in the Israeli startup SuperMeat, and have also helped make our distribution partnership with the Californian company BeyondMeat a great success, with the appointment of Marcus Keitzer as the board member for alternative protein sources, consciously bearing our past and future commitment in this area We believe in growth through diversity and, in addition to producing poultry meat - as our current and future core business - will increasingly focus our attention on finding and developing alternative protein sources Marcus Keit zer has proven that he is the right person for this, the more we look forward to working with him on the Board of Management, "explains Peter Wesjohann, CEO of the PHW Group.
Hintergrund:
Only at the beginning of the year, the PHW Group entered into a strategic partnership with the Israeli startup SuperMeat, which specializes in the production of meat from cell cultures - just a few weeks ago, the family business from Lower Saxony announced its distribution partnership with the Californian company Beyond Meat , More information can be found here: www.wiesenhof-news.de
The PHW Group:
The PHW Group based in Rechterfeld in Lower Saxony operates with 6.772 employees and a total turnover of around 2,48 billion euros in the areas of production and marketing of high-quality poultry specialties such as chicken, turkey and duck under the Wiesenhof brand. Other business areas include animal nutrition and animal health as well as human nutrition and human health in a group of more than 35 independent companies. More information can be found here: www.phw-gruppe.de
Picture PHW Group: Marcus Keitzer (43)
