Rako Etiketten announces new management structure

Adrian Tippenhauer has been appointed as the new managing director of Rako Etiketten. Tippenhauer has been working in different positions within the Rako Group for many years and he will now be responsible for national and international sales activities and business development within the self-adhesive labels business unit.

Matthias Kurtz will continue in his position at Rako Etiketten with responsibility for human resources, finance and IT.

Further, Jacob Steeger, formerly management assistant, has been appointed as authorized officer and will also take over the commercial management, together with Kurtz.

The new management team to lead Rako Etiketten coincides with a new supervisory board.

Ralph Koopmann, founder and long-standing managing director of Rako Etiketten, has transferred from the management board to lead the new supervisory board in order to control and participate in essential decisions concerning Rako Group. The Rako Group produces self-adhesive labels, flexible packaging solutions, sleeves, holograms, electronic article surveillance and RFID systems using flexo, offset, digital offset, screen, gravure and letterpress printing, or a combination of these.

Recent investments have included both digital and conventional printing equipment.

It employs more than 1,500 members of staff in Germany, France, China and South Africa.

Koopmann is to be supported in this new function by: Dirk Mueller, who has been head of Rako Group`s accounting department for many years; and the lawyer Dr Georg Faerber, partner at the Hamburg office of Esche Schuemann Commichau.

Kurtz said: ‘With setting up the new management and supervisory board we are confident to act even more flexibly and thereby creating the preconditions for further expansion in national and international business. We are particularly pleased that we could maintain the know-how of Ralph Koopmann and at the same time promote young professionals.’

Pictured (from left): Ralph Koopmann and Uwe Bögl at the opening of the Rako Group's South African facility in 2011