Spanninga announces today the appointment of Paul de Haan as its new Group Director. He will be working side-by-side with Feike Spanninga, owner and also Group Director to reinforce the management of the over-centenary brand.

Paul de Haan is a creative people-oriented leader with a taste for entrepreneurship who performs in analysing quickly complex problems, implementing solutions and communicating efficiently and convincingly through organisations.

Paul has held many management, R&D and operational positions over the past 25 years in the industrial processing of metals for application in the international agricultural sector and in the demanding automotive industry ; in the complex waste processing industry and in the supply of (biobased) raw materials.

“I am very pleased to be part of this great company with its impressive history and I am looking forward to the challenge for me and the incredible team within Spanninga to make sure that we continue to serve our customers and cooperate with them to stay at the forefront of developments in the bicycle industry like we have done in the past.” says Paul de Haan.