Christian Meyer-Hentschel

CONICA is a production and worldwide distribution specialist for PU and Epoxy based flooring solutions in the sports, leisure and industry sector. The 80 M € sales turnover are realized with 200 employees. CONICA takes part of the Serafin Unternehmensgruppe, Munich, Germany. As CEO my mission is to transform the company into an agile team, to grow worldwide market share and to drive performance and innovation.

Melle Dachbaustoffe GmbH, Germany’s number 2 wholesaler of roof, facade and metal products, realizes a turnover of 145 M € with 400 employees, owned by The Gores Group, Los Angeles, USA. Key mission as Chairman of the Executive Board is to set up, to grow and to improve the business with an inspiring culture to gain customers and teams.

Viessmann Group is a Global Innovator of heating and cooling technologies, realizing more than 2 B € with 11,000 employees. Reporting to the Group CEO, my mission is to develop and implement innovative strategies to stimulate transformation in the existing international sales model and to implement support tools with a 25 staff team. Furthermore, I am in charge of developing major international key customers.

A leading building materials distribution networks across Europe with 4,100 locations and 66,000 employees, realizing 2 B € of sales in Germany. Head of Business units “Dämmisol” and “Balzer”, generating 170 M € turnover with 500 employees, reporting to CEO.

Took over the division after an intensive acquisition phase, development of the sales strategy, 2 employees.

Implementing an international building materials distribution brand targeting workshop-less craftsman, concept, opening, transformation, turnaround of Kluwe entity, 50 M € turnover, 200 employees.

Supervision and strategic development of the international Platform sales concept in Central Europe.

Operator of 4,800 press, book and travel essentials stores in airports and railway stations in 39 countries. Category management and marketing with an annual purchasing volume of 40 M €, 13 employees.

Support and grow sales of international press to distributors and travel retailers, 30 M € of sales.

Leading German group of department stores, mail order business and tourism services. Consulting and project management in the Group unit for strategic innovation projects.

Leading German group of department stores, mail order business and tourism services. Traineeship for department store managers, lastly at Bochum: € 4 million annual turnover, 15 employees.

Internationales Marketing Management