Morąg, June 4, 2024. – Paged Morąg S.A., a leader in the production of plywood and innovative wood-based solutions, announces the appointment of Marek Janke as Vice President of the Management Board. Effective June 1, 2024, Marek Janke has also assumed the position of Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) at Paged Morąg S.A. and Paged Pisz Sp. z o.o.. Marek has been with Paged since February 01, 2024, when he started as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer (CCO) in his role as a member of Paged Morąg’s Board of Directors. In his new role as vice president, Marek will also manage innovation and technology as a member of Paged LabTech’s board of directors to make the Group’s products even more responsive to the needs of individual markets.
Marek Janke’s first task as Vice President will be to develop and implement an organizational transformation strategy for the plywood companies and focus on improving efficiency and growing the company’s revenues and profits. Marek is also working with the entire board on a new operating model that will strengthen the company’s position and introduce it to new markets with high-margin products, which in the current environment, heavily influenced by imports of illegal plywood from Russia and Belarus and the downturn in Western European countries, will be an important element in the development of Paged Group companies.
“The plywood market is very difficult today, mainly due to unfair competition and a slowdown in core markets. Fortunately, Paged has tremendous untapped opportunities in the sales area, mainly due to its extensive production capabilities and the innovations carried out at Paged LabTech, the industry’s most modern R&D center in the world. We have defined several development directions and growth levers. Starting from the new market segmentation, we have developed an expansion of the assortment under specific industries with the highest potential for margin growth.” – Janke underlined.
Marek Janke is a manager with many years of experience in managing the development of large companies and capital groups from various industries. Prior to joining Paged, he served as Vice President of TradeBridge, where he was responsible for trading and operations of subordinate companies. His extensive experience includes international trade, product launches and marketing. From 2013 to 2015, he served as Vice President of the Management Board at Impel Security Poland. From 2004 to 2013, he managed global sales, logistics and marketing at Barlinek S.A. as Commercial Director and Member of the Management Board. Prior to that, he was Director of Business Development at IQFM, introducing brands such as BAT, Ferrero, Absolut and Pillsbury to the Polish market.
Marek Janke is a graduate of the Maritime University in Szczecin, an Executive MBA at Erasmus Rotterdam University and a Post-MBA program at the Swiss Business School.
About Paged:
Founded over 90 years ago, Paged is now one of the five largest plywood manufacturers and a significant producer of wooden chairs in the European Union. It employs over 2,000 people and has a total of five production facilities in Poland and Estonia. It offers innovative solutions and products that are used in a wide range of industries such as interior design and furnishings, construction, transport and packaging in nearly eighty markets worldwide. As of 2019, Paged develops and implements technological and product innovations based on the unique competences of its own research and development centre Paged LabTech.
The Paged companies Paged Pisz, Paged Morąg, Paged Eesti, Paged Trade, Paged Meble, Paged LabTech, Paged Deutschland and BUK Ltd. are part of the Thumos Group, a private, Polish industrial and investment consortium.
Media contact:
Magdalena Kicińska, magdalena.kicinska@paged.pl , tel: +48 725520874
Aleksandra Atamańczyk, a.atamanczyk@sfera-group.pl , tel: +48 603429444
