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Employees
Barry Callebaut
Annual Report 2012/13
Employees per geographic
region:
from continuing operations
9%
Employee development:
the key to our success
42%
23%
26%
Europe
3,651
Americas
2,280
Asia-Pacific
1,941
Africa
Number of employees
786
8,658
Employees per function:
from continuing operations
10%
57%
33%
Management
902
Office staff
2,850
Production
4,906
Barry Callebaut is committed to the development of its employees, and ensuring business sustainability by aiming to fill 70%
of key positions with internal candidates. Thanks to our unique
brand as an employer, we attract, train and retain the best talent.
Managing talent
At Barry Callebaut, our focus is on responding to employees’ development needs
via job enrichment, coaching and training. We are committed to developing more of
our future leaders from within and to this end, we have established a Talent Management Process to provide staff with the support they need. As part of this process,
the past performance and the future potential of all managerial level employees
was reviewed during the last six months. This enabled us to identify talents in the
organization and has provided input for establishing individualized development
plans to advance leadership and growth.
In addition, we offer staff a selection of 12 in-house business school trainings,
our Marbach Development Programs, plus support for advanced degrees. These
programs are open to all office staff.
This is complemented by a Graduate Trainee program. The aim of this program is to ensure that we continue to attract and nurture the best talent. Our goal
is to develop employees from within the company with the skills and experiences
which will enable us to reach our mid-term business goals.
Our Graduate Trainee program is also proving a great success: At this year’s
annual workshop, we welcomed 14 new graduate trainees from 9 different countries, and celebrated the graduation of the six trainees who joined in 2011. All six
are in fixed Operations & Supply Chain roles today.
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Annual Report 2012/13
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Reaching the next level
This year saw the biggest and most important acquisition in the history of Barry
Callebaut. Over 1,700 new colleagues joined us from Singapore-based Petra Foods.
Their skills and know-how will significantly strengthen our business. The newly acquired business will also provide numerous opportunities for career development
for all employees. Our aim is to achieve a balance between the two cultures, to
retain talent and take teamwork to the next level through bringing all our employees together and create a successful base for future collaboration.
■Male
■Female
Number of employees
Navigating the world of chocolate
To increase the visibility of the career opportunities offered by the company, we
have developed a unique employer brand featuring a compass and the key message
“navigate the world of chocolate” that plays a key role in our Human Resources
activities. The brand captures the dynamics of the chocolate industry as well as the
values and strengths of Barry Callebaut, such as commitment, personal initiative,
team spirit and a strong sense of responsibility.
In future, more emphasis will be placed on the Internet. A new Internet
careers page is already in an advanced stage of development. This will contain
information about the world of Barry Callebaut and the recruitment process. In
addition, a stronger global presence on various Social Media platforms is planned.
Gender of employees:
Number of employees
During fiscal year 2012/13, we had 28 graduate trainees undertaking different
assignments in a range of areas, all of whom showed exceptional commitment and
promising growth curves. The success of the program is shown by the retention rate
of nearly 80%; 45% of our graduates are female and 55% male.
Across the organization, we offer a wealth of training programs for all our
employees, which include technical and on-the-job skills development, as well as
quality, health and safety courses.
Average seniority
in years:
Europe
23
10.44
Americas
7.91
Asia-Pacific
3.64
Africa
9.19
Excellence
Award
2013
Rewarding peak performance
The Excellence Award recognizes
­managers and their teams who are
willing to go the extra mile, who
are putting all their passion into their
work and, thus, have made a positive
impact on the company in the past
fiscal year. The nine Excellence Award
2013 winners were nominated by their
Presidents.
For the second time, a
“Team Excellence
Award” was given to a
successful team that
worked across different
functions and Regions,
fostering cross-border
thinking and collaboration.
Honored was the Global
Gourmet Leadership
Team (GGLT) for an
outstanding EBIT growth
across all Regions.
Nakano Fumitaka
Managing Director Japan
Robert Harrison
Gourmet Business Manager
United Kingdom
For his instrumental role in
leading the changes for our
business in Japan and its
contribution to our overall
growth in Asia-Pacific.
For continuously delivering
double-digit growth top- and
bottom-line despite a flat
market evolution in the U.K.
and for creating a very
strong team full of passion,
dedication and commitment.
Mike Schrauth,
Senior Director Sales &
Marketing Gourmet Americas
Steven Vandamme
Chief Information Officer
Sofie Ville
Corporate Controller
Operations & Supply Chain
Frédéric Trombert,
VP Gourmet EEMEA
For delivering year by year
critical improvement projects,
in time and budget. For being
a strong, dedicated manager
with a human touch, an
impressive business and
technical knowledge and a
demanding but fun colleague
to work with.
For her ability to build
business cases and solutions
for our outsourcing deals,
her commitment to critically
challenge received data and
ensure OSCO receives better
quality information.
Pascale
Meulemeester,
VP Global Gourmet
Brand Marketing and
GGLT team leader
Paul Halliwell,
VP Gourmet Asia-Pacific
Philippe Janvier,
VP Gourmet Western Europe
Sales & Trade Marketing
Claudia Kühne,
Senior Global Marketing
Manager Callebaut®
Anne Le Corre,
Group Gourmet Marketing
Controller
Joost Lindemann,
Senior Global Cacao Barry®
Marketing Manager
Beau Netzer,
VP Sales Gourmet
Dries Roekaerts,
R&D Director Gourmet &
Decorations Western Europe
Freek van der Knaap,
VP Gourmet Western Europe
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Alex Landuyt
Application & Innovations
Manager
Beau Netzer
Vice President Sales
Gourmet Americas
Hendra Satya
Plant Manager Indonesia
Frédéric Trombert
Vice President Gourmet
EEMEA
For being always full of new
ideas, for doing exceptional
development work under
great time pressure and
always changing demands,
for hosting so many customers throughout a year, and
for making time for real
conversations.
For realizing significant sales
volume and EBIT growth
two years in a row and for
the highly successful
acquisition and integration
of the Mona Lisa company
in the U.S. And for being a
strong member of the Global
Gourmet Leadership Team.
For his 35-year commitment
in the cocoa industry and
sharing his experience in
building factories all over
the world.
For refining our long-term
strategy and developing as
well as executing it successfully into regional and local
action plans and for delivering very strong results both
top- and bottom-line.
Steve Woolley
Vice President of Sourcing
Americas
For successfully managing
the sourcing of non-cocoa
products as a real team
player, for supporting the
volume growth and for a
tremendous EBIT growth of
our non-cocoa sourcing and
chocolate business in the
Americas25
over the last six
years.
Chairman’s
Award
2013
The annual Chairman’s Award recognizes employees who have been with
Barry Callebaut for a number of years
and have demonstrated outstanding
performance at work, as well as a
strong social commitment in their local
communities. They are individuals
who embody the Barry Callebaut values
of customer focus, passion, entrepreneurship, team spirit and integrity.
The Chairman’s Award was inaugurated in 1995 by late Klaus Jacobs, the
former Chairman of Jacobs Holding AG
and founder of Barry Callebaut. Since
then, the Chairman’s Award has been
given to a selected number of employees each year.
In 2013, 11 Barry Callebaut employees
from eight countries received the award
and were invited together with their
spouses or partners to come to Switzerland to be handed over the award by
Chairman of the Board Andreas Jacobs
and CEO Juergen Steinemann.
Customer focus.
Passion.
Entrepreneurship.
Team spirit.
Integrity.
Every Barry Callebaut
employee is an
ambassador of our
company. The reputation of our company, as
well as our success in
achieving our strategic
goals, depends on each
one of us.
We expect all employees to show responsibility and good citizenship
in business dealings,
and to behave in ways
that demonstrate our
company values. These
values and our belief
that the best working
environment is one
built on mutual respect
and trust are reflected
in the Barry Callebaut
Code of Conduct.
Philippe Goujon
Shihan Mohd
Ludovic Ferrando
Jamie Mogilner
David Yalla Gilles Wondja
Mark Siddall
Jacques Bouchard
Elisabeth Eberle
Isabelle Prooth
Paul Kipre Seri
Noël Van Bremt
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