Company PAPCEL (Sweden) is pleased to announce the following management changes:

After 21 years on the position of CEO and Chairman of the Board, David Dostal announced his intention of freeing the CEO position in the company in the favor of Petr Domin, MBA and remain in the company PAPCEL, a.s. solely as Chairman of the Board.

David Dostal has been actively working in the papermaking industry for over 20 years. He has stood by company’s most significant investment projects abroad over the last five years. Since 2009 he has focused on acquisition activities of both national and international companies. PAPCEL became the exclusive exporter under his leadership, doubled the amount of countries within its operation range and expanded customer portfolio over the last ten years. Under his direction the company crossed the revenue threshold of 1.5 billion CZK in 2015 and increased its sales level by 70% compared to 2014. He initiated the acquisition of production facilities in Italy thus contributing to the expansion of manufacturing capacities of the whole company. Thanks to his activities the company now operates not only in Europe but in Asia as well and runs two subsidiaries.

David Dostal remains in the company PAPCEL, a.s. as Chairman of the Board. He intends to dedicate his maximum effort to developing business activities, sales support and networking with company’s customers.

Petr Domin, MBA joined PAPCEL’s team in the beginning of 2019. He was appointed as the CEO on March 1, 2019. Petr Domin is a graduate of University of Pardubice (Czech Republic) in the field of "Paper and Cellulose" and "Management" (MBA - Master of Business Administration) on Notthingam Trent University (United Kingdom). He started his professional career in a Czech paper mill JIP Vetrni, shortly after that he continued working in Pribyslavice Paper Mill (now Huhtamaki). He took on several positions across the company at Huhtamaki concern in the division of food packaging – from workshop manager, project manager, production manager all the way up to the CEO of Czech branch.

He gradually moved from the position of Czech Huhtamaki CEO to CEO in Northern Ireland, Norway and the Netherlands (where among other things he built a new innovative and project team). He was at the foundation of Huhtamaki concern and its further management with four manufacturing companies in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, France and Northern Ireland and several supporting organizations across Europe.

His last professional engagement before coming to PAPCEL was managing worldwide division of Huhtamaki from the position of EVP with 11 manufacturing companies on all continents, supporting organizations and several smaller companies with minority ownership interest (mainly in Central and South America). At the same time he was part of senior management where he actively participated on corporate strategies and led „corporate responsibility" for the whole company (revenues of 3 billion EUR).

Petr Domin, MBA is a top expert with several years worth of experience in multinational company management along with national branches. He makes use of the latest trends in papermaking industry and international resources reflecting global development in paper branch. He has an overview of general economic trends on international markets which he is able to implement into top company strategy. He shall focus on introducing crisis management principles, will put emphasis on watching individual internal processes including evaluation of additional costs. He will continue to apply SMART principles in top goal management and their incorporation into specific action plans. As an expert in the paper branch he can use his experience to support direct sales and set up all ties to customers, employees as well as professional public.

Company‘s top management thanks to all the business partners for their current cooperation. The company’s primary goal is customers’ satisfaction, high quality services and professional technical support. They are looking forward to further cooperation and continuation of their joint business.