Bangkok--18 Apr--Henkel
Mr. Surachet Tanwongsval has been appointed President of Henkel Thailand to oversee Henkel’s business and operations in Thailand, which consist of about 600 employees working at a head office in Bangkok, two adhesive production plants in Chonburi and Samut Prakarn, as well as a Beauty Care production plant and a Beauty Care Asia Pacific logistics hub in Chonburi. Concurrently, he is the Country Manager for Adhesive Technologies in Thailand.
Surachet joined Henkel in 2011 as Director of Strategic Planning Office and was based at Henkel’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Shanghai. In that role, he was instrumental in building and leading a team to implement various projects for improving the pricing, service and manufacturing setup of the Adhesive Technologies business in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to that, he had worked at Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, McKinsey & Company in Singapore and Schlumberger across Asia and America.
Monica Sun, President of Singapore and Malaysia and Vice President of Adhesive Technologies for Southeast Asia, said, “Surachet has extensive experiences in gen-eral management and consulting and is well-placed to further strengthen the local team and lead the businesses to reach new heights of excellence.”
Surachet said, “I am honored with the opportunity to lead the Henkel Thailand team. To sustain our market leading positions in both the adhesive and beauty care busi-nesses in Thailand, we will focus on strengthening our talent management programs, continuously adapting our business structure to enable speed and flexibility, leveraging our scale to optimize operational efficiencies and delivering innovative, quality products to our customers.”
Henkel operates worldwide with leading brands and technologies in three business areas: Laundry & Home Care, Beauty Care and Adhesive Technologies. Founded in 1876, Henkel holds globally leading market positions both in the consumer and industrial businesses with well-known brands such as Persil, Schwarzkopf and Loctite. Henkel employs about 47,000 people and reported sales of 15,605 million euros and adjusted operating profit of 2,029 million euros in fiscal 2011. Henkel’s preferred shares are listed in the German stock index DAX.