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kloeckner.i strengthens management team with startup expert Franziska Leonhardt

DGAP-News: Klöckner & Co. SE / Key word(s): Change of Personnel
kloeckner.i strengthens management team with startup expert Franziska
Leonhardt

19.05.2016 / 14:43
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Berlin, Germany, May 19, 2016 - kloeckner.i GmbH, the digitalization
subsidiary of Klöckner & Co SE, is expanding its management team with Dr.
Franziska Leonhardt.

Due to take office as Chief Operating Officer in September, Ms. Leonhardt,
who holds a doctorate in law, will be in charge of areas including
strategy, business development as well as legal and compliance. She will
also head the Group's venture capital subsidiary, kloeckner.v.

Ms. Leonhardt was a member of the management team of Rocket Internet SE,
where she played a major role in structuring the international business
portfolio and the company's IPO in 2014. Most recently, she advised
companies such as private equity financed online and software firms with
the international scaling of their business model.

Gisbert Rühl, CEO of Klöckner & Co SE: "Franziska Leonhardt is an
outstanding addition to the management of kloeckner.i. Ms. Leonhardt will
be able to optimally contribute her in-depth expertise in launching and
scaling digital business models to our fast-growing digitalization
activities and drive forward the rapid evolution of our web platform for
the steel and metal industry. We look forward very much to working
together."

About kloeckner.i:
As part of its long-term growth strategy Klöckner & Co aims at the seamless
digitalization of its entire supply and service chain. In order to have all
targeted projects under one roof, Klöckner & Co established kloeckner.i, a
Group Center of Competence for digitalization, at the end of 2014 in
Berlin. kloeckner.i's main task is the development, testing and Group-wide
roll-out of digital solutions. kloeckner.i is also responsible for managing
online marketing activities and, as a platform for exchanging knowledge and
ideas, for coordinating all activities of Klöckner & Co's national
subsidiaries within the framework of digitalization. Meanwhile, kloeckner.i
has more than 30 employees from the Berlin startup scene, working in the
fields of product innovation and development, online marketing and business
analytics.

About Klöckner & Co:
Klöckner & Co is one of the largest producer-independent distributors of
steel and metal products and one of the leading steel service center
companies worldwide. Based on its distribution and service network of
around 200 locations in 14 countries, the Group supplies more than 140,000
customers. In addition to companies in the construction industry as well as
machinery and mechanical engineering, Klöckner & Co serves customers in the
automotive and chemical industry, in shipbuilding and in fields of
household appliances, consumer goods and energy. Currently Klöckner & Co
has around 9,200 employees. The Group had sales of around EUR6.4 billion in
fiscal 2015.

The shares of Klöckner & Co SE are admitted to trading on the regulated
market segment (Regulierter Markt) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
(Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse) with further post-admission obligations
(Prime Standard). Klöckner & Co shares are listed in the SDAX(R)-Index of
Deutsche Börse.

ISIN: DE000KC01000; WKN: KC0100; Common Code: 025808576.

Contact person Klöckner & Co SE:
Christian Pokropp - Press Spokesperson
Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]




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Language: English
Company: Klöckner & Co. SE
Am Silberpalais 1
47057 Duisburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)203 / 307-0
Fax: +49 (0)203 / 307-5000
E-mail: [e-mail]
Internet: www.kloeckner.com
ISIN: DE000KC01000
WKN: KC0100
Indices: SDAX
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated
Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover,
Munich, Stuttgart; Terminbörse EUREX


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