Hornbach Holding AG & Co. KGaA elected Vanessa Stutzle, currently Chief Digital Officer and a Member of the Management at the Douglas Group, as a new member of the Supervisory Board. She is assuming the position previously held by Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Jens P. Wulfsberg, who stood down from his position as a member of the Supervisory Board as of the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting on July 8, 2022 and who had himself been elected to the Supervisory Board of Hornbach Baumarkt AG at that company's Annual General Meeting on July 7, 2022. Vanessa Stutzle has been Chief Digital Officer and a Member of the Management at the Douglas Group since May 2020 and is responsible for e-commerce, the partner program, omni-channel, CRM, retail media sales, performance marketing, and data strategy. A graduate in business administration, she previously held the role of Executive Vice President with responsibility for the online business and customer relationship management at the Douglas Group.

From September 2022, she will move to become the new CEO at the Luqom Group, Europe's leading e-commerce platform for lamps and lighting solutions. Given her longstanding activity as an e-commerce specialist, Vanessa Stutzle can contribute far-reaching expertise in digitalization, a key area for the Hornbach Group.