“Stephane Batoux, chief executive officer of Albalact – part of Lactalis Group, will leave the company for a global position in a new FMCG organization,” Albalact officials told ZF.
Stephane Batoux, 51, is therefore leaving the dairy producer two and a half years since being brought on board by the company developed by the Ciurtin family, several months after Lactalis became its majority shareholder.
Stephane Batoux took over as CEO from Raul Ciurtin, who was also the chairman of the Board of Directors at the time.
Before joining Albalact, Stephane Batoux had run Danone in Romania, and then Coca-Cola HBC. He started working in Romania in 2009.
Prior to his time in Romania, he had worked as general manager of the Hungarian Danone subsidiary, after having served as purchasing director with the Italian subsidiary of the Reckitt Benckiser group.
Albalact was the largest dairy producer in Romania by revenue in 2015, according to the latest officially available data on the Finance Ministry website.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)