The Romanian executive had worked for Kaufland Romania until this summer, after which she left for Germany to undergo training. She will begin working in her new position soon, sources close to the company say.
Patricia Dragan is, as all the Kaufland executives for that matter, an extremely low profile person, so there is very little information about her and no photos. Moreover, she does not have a profile on any social networking website, not even on LinkedIn. According to the information on the market, Dragan had previously worked in the financial departments of two other retailers, Billa (grocery retail) and Baumax (do-it-yourself).
Patricia Dragan therefore becomes one of the key people of the German group along with Adrian Viman, who was put in charge of Kaufland’s Romanian operations in 2007 and will take the reins of Kaufland Germany this spring.
Kaufland arrived in Romania about a decade ago and is now the leader of the retail sector with about EUR1.9 billion sales generated by 102 discount hypermarkets, according to ZF estimates.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)