Sodiaal brings in former FrieslandCampina CFO to implement value plan
Launched in December 2017, the plan is to place value at the heart of Sodiaal's strategy, with the objective of the dairy cooperative being to reach the level of profitability of the top five European dairy companies.
In support of this plan, CEO Jorge Boucas, has reorganized the group's operational activities into four divisions and appointed key professionals from the agri-food industry.
Boucas is joined by Kees Gielen as group operations and finance director. Sodiaal said Gielen's mission is to successful implement the performance plan, while also simplifying management and internal operations. Gielen was CFO and operational director at Dutch cooperative FrieslandCampina, the fifth largest dairy cooperative in the world, from 2006 to 2015.
About Sodiaal
Sodiaal is the leading dairy cooperative in France and the third largest in Europe, with more than 20,000 producer members on more than 11,500 farms, 9,100 employees and 70 industrial sites in France as of December 31, 2017.
Sodiaal collected 4.73bn liters of milk in 70 French departments and generated a turnover of €5.1bn ($6bn) in 2017. The cooperative is active in all dairy sectors: cheese, fluid milk, yogurt, cream and butter, and dairy ingredients.
