The management board of Georg Nordmann Holding announced that with effect from 1 October, Irina Zschaler (45) becomes joint managing director of German distributor Nordmann, Rassmann (NRC, Hamburg; www.nrc.de). She succeeds Gabriele Henke (63) who after more than 30 years with NRC will be retiring with effect from 31 December 2015.

Zschaler will be taking responsibility for the Life Sciences and Coatings & Construction business units, as well as Finance, IT and the subsidiary companies Neoquimica (Portugal) and prochem (Switzerland). She started her training at the NRC company in 1989, after which she went on to work in various sales departments. Since 2012 she has been responsible for the company's subsidiaries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Following NRC's restructuring in the CEE region, the subsidiary companies in Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria will be reporting directly to Zschaler in future.

Edgar E. Nordmann, Gerd Bergmann and Carsten Güntner continue as members of the management board of NRC, their roles otherwise remaining unchanged.