Italy
Mark Aldridge will join the management of Garbuio Dickinson Group, headquartered in Treviso, Italy. With this step the course is set for the succession of the current managing director Mansueto Favaro.
Favaro is still responsible for the Garbuio Dickinson Group and will step down from the management board after a joint transition period. Favaro founded Garbuio SpA in 1988 and successfully completed the acquisition of the British company Dickinson Legg in 2006. Since summer 2014, the Garbuio Dickinson Group is part of Hauni.
Aldridge starts his new activities by the beginning of the third quarter of 2016 and comes from the British company Molins plc. where he has worked as managing director of the subsidiary Molins Tobacco Machinery since 2009. After his management studies Mark has held various positions in the tobacco industry during the last 25 years. Before joining Molins in 2003 as regional director for Asia, he had worked at Dickinson Legg in Winchester, UK as marketing and sales director from 1999-2003.