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TUI AG: TUI Group strengthens IT, Technology and New Markets
07-Dec-2016 / 15:20 CET/CEST
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- Frank Rosenberger (48) appointed as Executive Board member IT and New
Markets
- Henrik Homann to become new Group Director Strategy and join the Group
Executive Committee
Hanover, 7 December 2016???????????????????????*.* Frank Rosenberger, Group
Director Strategy and member of TUI Group's Group Executive Committee (GEC),
has been appointed as member of TUI Group's Executive Board with effect from
1 January 2017 by the Group's Supervisory Board. He has been appointed for a
three-year term of office, initially as Deputy Executive Board member in the
first year. Rosenberger will assume responsibility for IT and New Markets.
TUI is seeking to enhance digitalisation and expand innovative technologies
and business segments. The company also faces increasing requirements
associated with a highly efficient IT infrastructure and IT security. In
order to reflect the critical importance of these areas, the Supervisory
Board and Executive Board have created the new Executive Board role. The new
innovative growth areas include the online tourism platform LTE, through
which TUI aims to tap new global customer groups and markets, including
Spain, Portugal, Turkey or Brazil. The development of the Asian market,
where the Group recently entered into a cooperation scheme with Chinese
online provider Alibaba's travel platform, is to additionally promote
dynamic strategic and operative developments. Frank Rosenberger is an
industrial engineer. Prior to joining TUI in autumn 2015, he had held
group-wide responsibility for the global development of new business areas
at Vodafone Group Plc.
The role of TUI Group Director Strategy will be taken over by Henrik Homann
(54), Managing Director OneAviation in charge of the activities of the
Group's five leisure airlines. In assuming the new Group function, Homann
will also join the Group Executive Committee from 1 January 2017. Henrik
Homann joined TUI Group in 1995. From 1999 to 2014, his roles had included
CFO and HR Director as well as Labour Director for the Group's subsidiary
TUI Germany.
Contact:
ANALYST & INVESTOR ENQUIRIES
Andy Long, Director of Investor Relations, Tel: +44 (0)1293 645 831
Contacts for Analysts and Investors in UK, Ireland and Americas
Sarah Coomes, Head of Investor Relations, Tel: +44 (0)1293 645 827
Hazel Newell, Investor Relations Manager, Tel: +44 (0)1293 645 823
Jacqui Smith, PA to Andy Long, Tel: +44 (0)1293 645 831
Contacts for Analysts and Investors in Continental Europe, Middle East and
Asia
Nicola Gehrt, Head of Investor Relations, Tel: +49 (0)511 566 1435
Ina Klose, Investor Relations Manager, Tel: +49 (0)511 566 1318
Jessica Blinne, Team Assistant, Tel: +49 (0)511 566 1425
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Language: English
Company: TUI AG
Karl-Wiechert-Allee 4
30625 Hannover
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)511 566-00
Fax: +49 (0)511 566-1901
E-mail: Investor.Relations@tui.com
Internet: www.tuigroup.com
ISIN: DE000TUAG000, DE000TUAG273, DE000TUAG281
WKN: TUAG00 , TUA G27, TUA G28
Listed: Regulated Market in Hanover; Regulated Unofficial
Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich,
Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange; Open Market in
Frankfurt; London
Category Code: RDN
TIDM: TUI
Sequence Number: 3659
Time of Receipt: 07-Dec-2016 / 15:20 CET/CEST
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