Press release -
New Communications and Sustainability Manager appointed at Axel Johnson
Kerem Yazgan starts on January 1, 2016, as Communications and Sustainability Manager at Axel Johnson.
Kerem Yazgan will report directly to the CEO Mia Brunell Livfors. The last three years Kerem Yazgan has worked as CEO at United Minds, one of the leading communication agencies in Sweden, and prior to that Kerem Yazgan worked as a consultant at Prime.
- Axel Johnson is a symbol of the good company; value driven, competent, and with an ambition to drive change. It was of course impossible to not accept the position, says Kerem Yazgan.
- The continued work with sustainability is key for how we build and develop our companies, and with Kerem on board we hope to even further accelerate this work. We very much welcome Kerem to Axel Johnson, says Mia Brunell Livfors.
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Axel Johnson is one of the Nordic region’s leading trading groups which builds and develops businesses within trade and services in the European market, with main focus on the Nordic region. Group companies currently comprise Axel Johnson International, KICKS, Martin & Servera (equity stake 70 %), Novax, Åhléns and the partly owned listed companies Axfood (equity stake 50.1 %) and Dustin (equity stake 25 %). Axel Johnson’s consolidated annual sales amounts to approximately SEK 77 billion (2017) and the wholly and partly owned companies have about 20,000 employees (2017). Axel Johnson is a family-owned company in the fourth and fifth generation and is owned by Antonia Ax:son Johnson and her family.
