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As a strong manager with solid leadership marketing and sales experience, I am used to implement goals quickly and consistently and to think strategically but also to keep the little touches for success in mind.


I have extensive experience in various management positions in international brand companies and possess cross-industry knowledge from several years of strategic and operational consulting positions with companies in Austria's top 100. Furthermore, I have also sound retail and trade marketing expertise drawn from a variety of projects with large Austrian retail companies.


Since November 2007 I am in a managing position at Kotányi, one of Europe's leading spice producer. The company is owner-managed and achieved more than 130 million euro turnover with operations in 20 Central and Eastern European countries,.

In my role as Country Group General Manager I am responsible for the strategic development, the budget and the P&L performance form a headquarters perspective for the countries Turkey, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Baltics and China. The general managers of Kotanyi subsidiaries or branches in the countries report directly to me.


I am also responsible for the evaluation, development and implementation of growth strategies in international development and the coordination of cross-border projects with international trade customers such as Tesco or Metro


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Manfred Wildauer, MSc