Mazauric had previously worked for British retailer Marks & Spencer, and spent the past seven years working for the Kingfisher group as chief financial officer and supply chain manager of Castorama, and chief financial officer of B&Q, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Kingfisher officials did not return ZF’s calls for comment on the reason for the replacement of Patrick Papot by press time, whom the group had appointed to run Brico Depot in the spring of last year.
Up until the deal with Kingfisher, the Bricostore CEO was Isabelle Pleska, who stayed with the company as chief operating officer until last fall. Soon after signing the deal with Bricostore, Kingfisher sent a team of ten expats to Romania to run the local operations, hoping to grab as big a slice of a market dominated by Dedeman, Praktiker, Ambient and Leroy Merlin (the new owner of BauMax).
In September, Kingfisher completed conversion of the 15 Bricostore stores acquired in Romania from France’s Group Bresson two years ago.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)