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Leica Camera AG is expanding their global sales organization and announced some changes in their management:



Wetzlar, 28/01/2015 - Leica Camera AG is expanding their global sales organization and assigns in this context, the responsibilities for the German market again. Now under the umbrella of the global Sales Unit operates a German organization in addition to various branch offices in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. The global reorganization of the sales area, the markets in which the Leica Camera AG is represented by subsidiaries and trading partners more closely tied to the company's headquarters in the Hessian town of Wetzlar. The goal is to expand the national companies and so globally to achieve greater market penetration.


The Leica Camera AG has grown in recent years against the trend in global photography market, especially by working closely with retailers and a consistent focus on the company's own retail -Business with Leica galleries, Leica stores and boutiques. To further increase the efficiency and create potential for additional growth, Sales and Retail operate in the future in separate organizational structures. The Sales is listed as Global Sales Director with immediate effect by Steffen wedge (47). He is directly responsible national companies and reported to Kaltner Oliver, CEO of Leica Camera AG for Marketing, Sales and Retail. Prior to wedge had already International successfully promoted as head of sales, the internationalization of sales structures.


At the head of the German subsidiary enters Falk Friedrich (41) in recent years in international sales transactions with trading partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa up with great success and has expanded. The former sales manager for Germany, Tim Pullman (43), has contributed significantly to the growth in its function of Leica Camera AG in the German market. He goes into the retail sector and assumes there the newly created position of Head of Retail Stores Leica Germany and Austria. As such, he is responsible for the Leica Stores in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, and Vienna Wetzlar.


Original German language press release:


Wetzlar, 28.01.2015 - Die Leica Camera AG baut ihre weltweite Vertriebsorganisation um und ordnet in diesem Zusammenhang auch die Zuständigkeiten für den deutschen Markt neu. Unter dem Dach der globalen Sales Unit operiert künftig eine deutsche Organisation neben den verschiedenen Landesgesellschaften in Europa, Amerika, Asien und Australien. Durch die globale Neuordnung des Sales-Bereichs werden die Märkte, in denen die Leica Camera AG durch Landesgesellschaften und Handelspartner vertreten ist, noch enger an die Unternehmenszentrale im hessischen Wetzlar angebunden. Ziel ist, die Landesgesellschaften weiter auszubauen und so global eine höhere Marktdurchdringung zu erreichen.


Die Leica Camera AG ist in den vergangenen Jahren gegen den Trend im weltweiten Fotomarkt gewachsen, vor allem durch eine enge Zusammenarbeit mit dem Fachhandel und eine konsequente Ausrichtung auf das unternehmenseigene Retail-Geschäft mit Leica Galerien, Leica Stores und Boutiquen. Um die Effizienz weiter zu steigern und Potenzial für zusätzliches Wachstum zu schaffen, operieren Sales und Retail künftig in gesonderten Organisationsstrukturen. Der Bereich Sales wird ab sofort von Steffen Keil (47) als Global Director Sales geführt. Er verantwortet direkt die Landesgesellschaften und berichtet an Oliver Kaltner, Vorstand der Leica Camera AG für die Bereiche Marketing, Sales und Retail. Zuvor hatte Keil bereits als Leiter des Vertrieb International erfolgreich die Internationalisierung der Vertriebsstrukturen vorangetrieben.


An die Spitze der deutschen Landesgesellschaft tritt Falk Friedrich (41), der in den vergangenen Jahren im Vertrieb International die Geschäfte mit Handelspartnern in Europa, im Mittleren Osten und in Afrika mit großem Erfolg auf- und ausgebaut hat. Der bisherige Leiter des Vertriebs Deutschland, Tim Pullmann (43), hat in seiner Funktion erheblich zum Wachstum der Leica Camera AG im deutschen Markt beigetragen. Er wechselt in den Bereich Retail und übernimmt dort die neu geschaffene Position eines Head of Retail Leica Stores Deutschland und Österreich. Als solch


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