Effective of 1 January 2010, Markus H. Kepka (47) will be Managing Director and Spokesman of the Management Board of Fissler GmbH, Idar-Oberstein.
Markus Kepka joins the company from Leifheit AG, where he was responsible for international subsidiaries and corporate development. He was also in charge of management and reorganisation of sales in Germany.
Prior to Leifheit, Markus Kepka held various positions in the Oetker Group, on the management of Krombacher Brewery and was a Managing Director of Hachette Deutschland, a subsidiary of the French Lagardère Group.
In Markus Kepka, Fissler GmbH is gaining an experienced marketing and sales professional who will forge ahead with the company’s strategic focus and further development of the Fissler brand both nationally and internationally.
About Fissler
Fissler GmbH has stood for high-quality cookware for decades. The company has been granted more than 200 patents and utility models in the past 50 years alone. The German family enterprise was founded in 1845 in Idar-Oberstein by Carl Philipp Fissler. Today the brand stands for cooking with pleasure and passion and is one of the world’s leading brands for high-quality cookware. The family enterprise employs a workforce of over 700. Fissler premium products are "Made in Germany" and distributed in more than 70 countries.
