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News Release from: KBA
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 December 2006
Sammeck Steps Up to Head KBA Sheetfed
Sales
Ralf Sammeck is to succeed Andreas Mossner as head of KBA's sheetfed sales in August 2007.
Ralf Sammeck is to succeed Andreas Mossner as head of KBA's sheetfed sales in August 2007 Koenig and Bauer's (KBA) supervisory board has approved changes at executive level, so that on July 31 next year and at his own request, Andreas Mossner (43) will step down from the parent company's board of directors, resigning the position he has held since January 1998 as executive vice president for sales at KBA's sheetfed division in Radebeul, near Dresden (Germany)
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ralf Sammeck (44), who has guided KBA North America's sheetfed division to new heights since being appointed president and chief executive officer there in October 2002, will succeed Mossner.
Mossner has accepted an appointment by the supervisory board of KBA's Austrian subsidiary, KBA-Modling, as successor to its managing director Wolfgang Schischek (62), who retires at the end of January 2008.
Andreas Mossner joined what was then KBA-Planeta as financial director in 1993 after several years at international auditors Price Waterhouse and in early 1998 he was promoted to deputy executive vice president for finances and controlling.
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Following the merger with the parent company, Koenig and Bauer that year, Mossner joined the new managing board as executive vice president for sheetfed sales and controlling.
Whilst in that post, sheetfed sales more than trebled, to over EUR800 million (US$1 billion) and KBA has defended its position as one of Germany's three global leaders in the printing press market, said the company.
Andreas Mossner has also been instrumental in extending KBA's international sales and service network by setting up subsidiaries and outlets in Italy, eastern Europe, China, Singapore and Australia.
He has been equally active in driving acquisitions to diversify the group's product portfolio, the most recent being Grafitec in the Czech Republic and LTG Mailander in Germany.
Mossner represents KBA's interests on the supervisory boards of seven European, North American and Chinese subsidiaries.
The proposed succession change on Ferbruary 1 2008, following Wolfgang Schischek's retirement, will enable Andreas Mossner to achieve his ambition of taking the helm at a corporate enterprise.
KBA-Modling, whose 800 employees generated sales in 2005 of around EUR140 million (US$179m), is already a major production plant for KBA's security presses and sheetfed sub-assemblies, but Mossner is planning to gear-up growth still further and intensify sheetfed sales and service activities in Austria, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria.
Ralf Sammeck, a qualified printer and printing engineer, joined KBA's Radebeul division in 2000 as sales director for digital printing systems following a seven-year stint at KBA competitor Heidelberg, where he rose to become head of the Dusseldorf operation.
He also spent four years as managing partner at a family enterprise in the packaging press business.
Since Sammeck's appointment in October 2002 as president and chief executive officer of KBA North America in Williston (Vermont), which handles sales and service of KBA sheetfed presses in the USA and Canada, sales have more than doubled and the company has substantially increased its market share, expanding its strong position in the packaging printing sector and making further inroads in the commercial market, added KBA.
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