Hans de Haas

Manage the turnaround of Thermaflex and the subsequent development of Thermaflex in an European leader offering Insulation Solutions.

Entrepreneur - Hands-on involvement, risk & reward sharing executive. Proven track record and over extensive international experience in leading change, turn-arounds and developing business solutions for SME's in manufacturing, sourcing and service industries. Core Competences: leading change, business development, restructuring, acceleration, B2B brand development and delivering solutions in manufacturing, sourcing and service industries.

My assignment was to manage the operational change of the ZED Candy Group.

Started in 2006 as CEO of the company. The goal was to establish a CEE based market leader in offering plastics Solutions based on injection moulding. The company was sold to Rosti group in 2015.

Hans founded Via Collect, a last mile distribution solution. The concept aimed at building a network of “collection” points located at the key access point of major cities. The concept was to serve clients who were in need of efficient, flexible and reliable distribution to consumers and end-users. Users can on their way to work collect goods; on their way home drop off returns or shipments; collect shopping’s and other purchases. Easy and without losing time.

In 1994 Hans and Tibbett & Britten Plc decided to jointly develop a Logistics service provider in the Benelux (3PL) servicing the FMCG sector. T&B was built from Metra, VNU’s former in-house magazine distribution company. Hans led the acquisition of VNU successfully and subsequently developed a 700 fte, 40 mln euro company. T&B Benelux major clients included: VNU, Roto Smeets De Boer, P&C, Vogele, Jamin (Ahold).

Faxion was a leading clothing & textiles distribution and logistics group. Hans joined the group in 1992 with the assignment to develop and coordinate the execution of a restructuring plan for the Faxion Group. Hans was subsequently appointed as the Operations Director of Faxion-JPJanssen in Venlo where he a led the successful restructuring in the Benelux.