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New Board member: Beate Flamm appointed as Chief Culture & Communication Officer at Progroup AG

Landau, 18.04.2024 – On 15 April, Beate Flamm joined the Board of the containerboard and corrugated sheetboard manufacturer Progroup. She is responsible for the areas of human performance management (personnel), communications and marketing, and corporate social responsibility.

Progroup CCO Beate Flamm
Caption: New member of the Progroup Board: Beate Flamm will be responsible from 15 April 2024 for the areas of personnel, communications and marketing, and corporate social responsibility at the family-run business that operates internationally

"Beate has many years of expertise in establishing and expanding a sustainable approach for businesses and in developing corporate and employer brands. We will also be able to benefit from her experience as a Board member in establishing our new four-person Board. What is more, Progroup is not a new company to Beate: she previously worked as an external consultant and played a key role in developing our corporate identity. During this process, we got to know and really appreciate one another," says Maximilian Heindl, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Progroup AG.

Flamm will work together with Maximilian Heindl, Dr. Volker Metz (CFO) and Dr. Marc Sesterhenn (COO) on the Board to develop the areas of personnel and employer branding, promote work in communications and marketing, and will be responsible for the company's approach to sustainability. "As a family company, Progroup adopts a long-term approach and acts accordingly. This is why I'm looking forward to working with my colleagues on the Board to reinforce Progroup's profile as a responsible employer and highlight the company's pioneering role in championing the circular economy. In doing this, I'm very keen to listen to the concerns and questions of our employees as well as other stakeholders."

Flamm, who has a degree in political science and English studies and is a trained typesetter, has spent many years working in strategic consulting and managing businesses. Most recently, she served as a Board member at the international IT distributor ALSO Holding AG and as SVP for Sustainable Change with responsibility for sustainability, communications, marketing and investor relations. Before this, she was at Strichpunkt, a design and strategy agency, where she advised lots of German DAX 30 companies on their communications and successfully established Berlin as a place to do business.

Picture rights: Progroup / Tanja Hammel

About Progroup

Progroup AG, located in Landau, is one of the leading manufacturers of containerboard and corrugated sheetboard in Europe. Since its founding in 1991 in Offenbach/Queich, the company has pursued a consistent growth strategy. It is based on technological leadership through the use of state-of-the-art plants and on cost leadership supported by a centrally managed process organisation. Progroup operates production sites in six Central European countries. These currently include three paper mills, 14 corrugated sheetboard plants, a logistics company and two waste-to-energy power plants. With around 1,781 employees, the company generated revenues of approximately 1.3 billion euros in 2024.

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