PRETORIA PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED - NEW CEMENT MD AND BOARD APPOINTMENT
AT PPC
PRETORIA PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED
Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa
(Registration No.: 1892/000667/06)
("PPC")
JSE code: PPC
ISIN code: ZAE000005559
NEW CEMENT MD AND BOARD APPOINTMENT AT PPC
Barloworld Limited subsidiary, PPC today announced that Dr Orrie Fenn, has been
promoted to managing director of PPC Cement with effect from 1 March 2004, and
was appointed to the PPC Board on Friday 5 March 2004.
Fenn"s appointment follows the recently announced appointment of PPC chief
operating officer and Cement managing director, John Blackbeard as CEO designate
of Barloworld Scientific. Blackbeard will take up his new position with effect
from 1 July 2004.
PPC"s chief executive officer, John Gomersall said, "Over the past five years,
Orrie has achieved outstanding results and this coupled with his extensive
experience in the cement industry makes him the ideal person to lead the PPC
Cement team."
Fenn has a doctorate in Engineering, and joined PPC Cement early in 1999 as
assistant to John Blackbeard, then technical and operations director of PPC
Cement. During this time, Fenn led the global technical benchmarking of PPC
Cement"s facilities and the setting of stretch targets for each operation.
Following John Blackbeard"s appointment as managing director of PPC Cement later
in 1999, Fenn was appointed operations director, giving him responsibility for
all the cement factories and quarries in the South African PPC Cement stable. In
this role he reduced production costs by R80-million over a four-year period. He
also championed the implementation of PPC"s internal value based management
initiative, Kambuku throughout PPC Cement"s operations. This was key in the
factories being honed to the point where today, most of the plants run at or
above world best practise levels.
In 2002 he was appointed sales and marketing director of PPC Cement. "We moved
Orrie into sales and marketing to both utilise his skills and management
approach to streamline and optimise performance within sales and marketing and
to develop his all-round experience." said Gomersall. Amongst other initiatives
during his tenure in sales and marketing, Fenn has been responsible for
successfully implementing the ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 14001(Environmental)
practices, a first for cement companies in South Africa. In addition, he made a
contribution to the bottom line by reducing working capital to record levels and
further reducing sales and marketing costs.
"Orrie Fenn"s track record speaks for itself and I know that under his
leadership, PPC Cement will continue to grow from strength to strength,"
concluded Gomersall.
Sandton
8 March 2004
Date: 08/03/2004 12:39:53 PM Produced by the JSE SENS
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