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Shift in management responsibilities to support further growth and expansion of NXT GROUP
The 2021 annual shareholders meetings of NXT Group of Companies resulted in a shift in management responsibilities to support the GROUP’s further international growth and expansion of its partner portfolio.
In October and November of 2021, the annual shareholder’s meetings were held to discuss the management focus for the coming two years (2022-2023).
The main outcome of those meetings:
- Both the NXT TRADE and NXT eCOM divisions are contributing to the growth of the NXT GROUP’s service activities, transaction volumes, and international expansion.
- The employee base increased by 20 percent in 2021 and is expected to grow by 45 percent in 2022. This employee growth with being needed to facilitate the growth of existing partnerships and the onboarding of new consumer brands and technology & performance material producers, which will make use of NXT’s infrastructure in India, Turkey, and Europe.
NXT’s current partnerships with Technology & Performance Material producers in Turkey and India; require either an increase in the scope of activities NXT is handling in existing international markets or demand the activation of new international/regional markets. - To create management capacity to facilitate NXT’s growth in the broadest sense it has been decided that as per January 1st, 2022, NXT’s founder Michael Westenberg will step down as director of the Turkish and Indian companies, whereas Victor Eveleens (Head of the Business Units Technology & Performance Materials) will step up and will become end responsible for all Country & Local Market organizations and Supply Chain Management operations outside of Europe.
To create management capacity to facilitate NXT’s growth in the broadest sense it has been decided that as per January 1st, 2022, NXT’s founder Michael Westenberg will step down as director of the Turkish and Indian companies, whereas Victor Eveleens (Head of the Business Units Technology & Performance Materials) will step up and will become end responsible for all Country & Local Market organizations and Supply Chain Management operations outside of Europe.
Michael Westenberg will be driving NXT’s growth agenda with a strong focus on broadening and developing its strategic partnerships, scaling up the NXT eCOM activities in Europe, and activating the planned startup of NXT eCOM in the US market.