Annual Report Gorenje Group 2009

FRANJO BOBINAC
President of the Management board who is simultaneously responsible for the Ecology, Energy and
Services Division,
He graduated in international economic relations from the Faculty of Economics of the University in
Ljubljana in 1982. In 1997 he finished MBA at Ecole Superieure de Commerce in Paris. He has a fluent
command of French, English and German. He started his career in Emo Celje. And after three years,
viz. on 1 September 1986 he started working for Gorenje Commerce as an assistant to the director of
export. Four years later he was appointed a director of export in Gorenje Household Appliances and in
the year 1991 a director of marketing in Gorenje - Household Appliances. From May 1993 to March
1998 he was the general director of Gorenje Sidex France, a branch office of Gorenje in Paris. From
March 1998 he was a member of the management board of Gorenje in charge of sales and marketing.
Due to his excellent organisational and management abilities he introduced quality changes in the
organisation and contents of work in the field of marketing in a short period of time and as the first
salesman enormously contributed to the exceptional growth of Gorenje. In spring 2003 the supervisory
board trusted him the mandate to constitute a new management board that started working on 18 July
2003 and in the year 2008 this board started a new term of office.
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