Terhi Okkonen appointed Marketing Director of the Stockmann Department Store Division, Nina Laine-Haaja appointed Managing Director of Seppälä

Helsinki, Finland, 2011-10-03 11:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
STOCKMANN plc, Investor News 3.10.2011 at 12:00 EET

Seppälä’s Managing Director, Terhi Okkonen, eMBA (born 1961), has been appointed Marketing Director of the Stockmann Department Store Division as of 1 March 2012, when the current Marketing Director Maaret Kuisma retires. Terhi Okkonen will start in the Department Store Division and concurrently leave the Group’s Management Committee on 1 January 2012. She has been the Managing Director of Seppälä since 2005 and has previously worked in the Department Store Division as Buying Manager, Director of the Itäkeskus department store, and Sales Director of the Helsinki city centre department store. In her new role, Terhi Okkonen will report to Maisa Romanainen, the Executive Vice President, Director of the Department Store Division.

Director of Seppälä Store Operations, Nina Laine-Haaja, eMBA (born 1961), has been appointed the new Managing Director of Seppälä and a member of the Stockmann Group’s Management Committee as of 1 January 2012. Nina Laine-Haaja has worked for the company in various positions since 1986 and has been a member of Seppälä’s management team since 2001. In her new role, she will report to Hannu Penttilä, the CEO of the Stockmann Group.

Further information:
Terhi Okkonen, tel. +358 9 121 7201
Nina Laine-Haaja, tel. +358 9 121 7280

STOCKMANN plc

Hannu Penttilä
CEO

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