7-6-2007
Paul Bringmann (LaPlace): Retail Personality 2007
Paul Bringmann, General Manager of La Place, has been awarded ‘Retail Personality of 2007’.
La Place is, according to the jury, a prime example of merging the restaurant
business and food retail. Under the leadership of Bringmann La Place, part of
Vroom & Dreesmann, grew to a business unit with more than 200 shops and 8
different formula’s.
The jury, with amongst others former award winners such as Hans Breukhoven (CEO
FRS Holding), Ronald de Waal (CEO WE International), Gerard Marsman (CEO
Wehkamp) and Ben Suidman (ex-CEO hunkemöller), choose from a shortlist of the
10 most respected retailers according to the readers of Elsevier magazine en the
top 100 Dutch retailers. Paul Bringmann defeated nominees like Dick Boer (CEO
Albert Heijn), Carel van Eerd (Chairman and owner of Jumbo Supermarkets), Jaap
Lagerweij (PLUS Supermarkets) and his own boss Tony DeNunzio (Chairman of
Maxeda).
Previously La Place was nominated by the World Retail Congres for the ‘Most
Innovative Format of the Year’ in March 2007. In 2006 La Place was awarded ‘Best
Retail Chain in The Netherlands’ in the category ‘Food to Go’.