The supervisory board of the HARTMANN GROUP announced the appointment of Britta Fuenfstueck as the company's new Chief Executive Officer and Chair of HARTMANN's Management Board. Fuenfstueck will succeed Andreas Joehle, who has been in office since 2013 and announced last year his plans to step down due to personal reasons. She will join the Management Board of HARTMANN on November 1, 2018 and will succeed Joehle as CEO on January 1, 2019.

Britta Fuenfstueck joins HARTMANN from Clariant, where she was a member of the executive committee. In this role she was responsible for the Plastics & Coatings business, as well as several corporate functions.