Brambles Streamlines Management

Brambles announced a consolidation of its management structure to further intensify focus on its regional operations while enhancing organizational efficiencies.

This follows a review of the head office functions of both Cleanaway and Brambles Industrial Services. The review confirmed there was a considerable degree of overlap between the two businesses, which, with the reducing requirements of the regional Cleanaway operations for functional head office support, provided the opportunity to consolidate the management structure.

Effective immediately, Jean-Louis Laurent, CEO of Brambles Industrial Services, will assume additional responsibility for Cleanaway’s UK and Asia-Pacific operations. Gerben Westra, CEO of Cleanaway, will remain a Director of the UK business and have as a key responsibility the further development of Cleanaway’s operations in Germany and the Baltic States until he leaves the group in July 2005.

Cleanaway’s international headquarters in London will close later this calendar year.

Brambles’ global headquarters is in Sydney, Australia