XDC/FTT
To Reorganise European Sales
December
23, 2011
Source: XDC In the wake of the
expansion of the group, XDC/FTT will be resetting the course for its European
sales activities at the beginning of next year. The
company announced that, in the future, it was planning to split up its pan-European
company structure into the territories Western and Central Europe as well as South-Eastern
Europe supervised by two umbrella organisations.
In this context, the
Austrian branch FTT Digital Cinema GmbH headed by Thomas Rüttgers will be
responsible for the territory South-Eastern Europe with Austria, Hungary, Italy,
Romania, and Russia as well as the former CIS countries. In contrast, the German
branch Film Ton Technik Hannsdieter Rüttgers will be responsible for the
territory Western and Central Europe with Germany, Benelux, Spain, Poland and
Czech Republic including all FTT affiliates in such countries.
Frank Schmitz
will remain Sales Director for Germany reporting to Till Cussmann who will be
heading sales for the whole territory Western and Central Europe. Jérôme
Michel who has been working in the head office in Liège in recent years
will join the German sales team from the 1st of January. In
the framework of this restructuring, there will be a change in the management
of Film Ton Technik Hannsdieter Rüttgers GmbH: Thomas Rüttgers will
step down from his position as Managing Director Germany and Serge Plasch will
take his position from the 1st of January 2012 heading from then on the board
of management of the parent company XDC in Liège as well as of the largest
subsidiary of the group.
“It has now become important to change the
structure of our group in order to put our pan-European approach into practice
as effectively as possible. With Thomas Rüttgers we have an industry veteran
who knows the cinema business from scratch and who has already gained a foothold
in Central and Eastern Europe in recent years,” said Plasch. He went on saying
that one was sure to have given these growing markets requiring more support into
the right hands. Besides conquering new markets
FTT Digital Cinema GmbH is to support the existing branch offices in their sales
activities more strongly. “There is an extraordinary potential in these markets
as the cinema partly has a totally different value as it has here“, stated
Rüttgers. He said that due to this fact one could not finally estimate which
power would come from the digital conversion. The new sales structure shall become
effective on 1st April 2012. Rüttgers and his team will then move to new
offices in Düsseldorf.
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