Fast-moving consumer goods manufacturer, Unilever Nigeria PLC, has announced the appointment of a new Managing Director, Tim Kleinebenne.
This followed the resignation of Carl Raymond Cruz, with effect from May 4, 2023.
The appointment of Kleinebenne was announced on Tuesday in a corporate notice signed by its Company Secretary, Afolasade Olowe.
Kleinebenne graduated with a Business Economics degree from the University of Hamburg in Germany and has 31 years of international experience in the FMCGs industry at Unilever.
His previous roles include senior sales and marketing roles as well as over 10 years as Managing Director of Unilever businesses, two of which were publicly listed.
“Mr Kleinebenne is currently Managing Director of Unilever Côte d’Ivoire and has also served as Managing Director of Unilever Ethiopia, where he established the business and built it into a leading local consumer goods manufacturer, and as Managing Director of Unilever Caribbean,” part of the statement read.
The company noted that its outgoing MD delivered significant appreciation in both turnover and profit and set Unilever Nigeria on a path to sustainable and profitable growth after steering the company through the difficult years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
