Annual Report Gorenje Group 2009

FRANC KOŠEC
member of the management board, so-responsible for the Home Appliances Division and the field of
industrial machinery and tool making
He is an electrical engineering technician and started working for Gorenje in 1971. His almost 40-year
career in Gorenje has been related to the production - technical field. In Gorenje he worked as a
technician in charge of technical changes, a head of department of technical changes, a head of
department of product control, a head of the washing technique programme to a director of this
programme. From 1997 to 2003 he was an executive director of the management board for the
production - technical field. He was a person in charge and a driving force of numerous projects in
Gorenje. He is well-deserved for the emergence of household appliances of new generations, for the
introduction of electronics into Gorenje products and approximation of their functions to the
expectations of customers. He played an important role in the development of design of household
appliances whose achievements rank Gorenje to the fore when compared to the competition. His
function was of vital importance when managing the largest investments of Gorenje, such as the first
factory of cooling - freezing appliances in Velenje, galvanisation, plastics plant, Syrofoam factory, the
NAVIS high-bay warehouse and construction of the factory in Valjevo in the Republic of Serbia. He was
appointed a member of the management board for the first time in 2003 and to March 2009 he was in
charge of quality and development.
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