L'Oréal S.A. announced that following the retirement of Alexandre Popoff, President of L'Oreal Eastern Europe Zone, L'Oreal creates a new Europe Zone to be led by Vianney Derville, currently President of L'Oreal Western Europe Zone. Under his leadership, the two former zones of Western Europe and Eastern Europe will come together as one single Zone. This organizational change has been designed to put in place the optimum conditions to help drive future growth and represents the last stage in the reorganization of the Group's Zone structure. Vianney joined the Group in 1992, as a product manager in the Consumer Products Division in France for Lascad. In 1999, he was next appointed as General Manager for the CPD Division in Japan, a position he held for 4 years. Following his success in Japan, Vianney was subsequently appointed as General Manager for L'Oreal Spain in 2004. Most recently, in 2016 Vianney was appointed President of the Western Europe Zone, and joined the Group's Executive Committee. Over the past few years, he has successfully transformed the zone into a multi-division operating model, which has led to significant market share growth.