Thomas Barmann

Owner of NOBEL Service Supply. Focus on electrial installations with wires/calbes, cable trays, cable assmblies, connectors, automation products, electrical installatin products.

Executive VP Marketing Sales Lapp Holding North America Responsibility: Lapp USA, Lapp Canada, Lapp Mexico, Lapp Tannehill, Lapp Systems, Lapp Cable Works, Lapp Holding Professional Experiences with Lapp Holding North America (Florham Park, New Jersey) In 6 years with Lapp Holding NA a business turnaround for the six affiliated was achieved by: doubling the individual and overall revenues of the Lapp Companies, leading the companies from losing money in 2002 to an average 10% return on sales, whic

EMTEC Group Luwdigshafen (Germany) Key achievements and goals were: setting up EMTEC Consumer Media as an independent Company; making a successful brand change from BASF to EMTEC at the consumer products, which was achieved with market share gain; restructuring the European affiliates into four key regions instead of 12 independent subsidiaries; starting up a now successful business in Asia, starting up a new company in the US; concluding a cost saving program of about 15 mill €, building a new and accep

tesa tape, Inc. Charlotte North Carolina (USA) The major objective and accomplishment was the restructuring of marketing and sales USA/CND into a profitable and growing business. At the end of 1999 we achieved +10% ROS and 17% sales growth while we started at a basis of a loss of -8% ROS and 4% sales growth in 1996. The leading steps to success were: rebuilding organizations, reducing complexity in the assortment and customer base by defining and deploying a growth strategy. Refocusing the sales and mark

Beiersdorf-Hamburg tesa Division, Germany The turn around of the slowed down and questioned business unit tesa electro/electronic into a prospecting business unit world wide was achieved over the period of four years. Development and successful introduction of new products, the definition and implementation of a world wide strategy, empowerment of employees in Hamburg and world wide affiliates, as a high presents in Asia, at customers, distributors and at our newly established joint-venture were the corn

Proven turn around and development of the business field: Polyamide-Extrusion from a low profit, questionable business into the highest profitable area in 2.5 years. Duties included negotiations with key accounts, strategic planning, project management and organizational development. Other experiences were gained by: closing a finally successful introduced product line due to a lack of profitability and by successfully establishing concepts for the market introduction of product/market segments with low per