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Interprint GmbH expands management team Interprint GmbH, Arnsberg, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of decorative surfaces for the wood-based materials, furniture and flooring industries, is expanding its management team. In addition to Hideo Yoshikawa (CEO), Jens Bauer (CFO), Robert Bierfreund (COO) and Holger Dzeia (CSO), Stephan Igel will strengthen Interprint GmbH as Managing Director from 1st July 2022. Also acting as CBDO (Chief Business Development Officer), he will assume overall responsibility for the regional and product-related
expansion of business activities as well as product management within the international organisation. Stephan Igel is an internationally experienced manager and a proven expert in the decor industry. After studying business administration, he held various responsible management positions over a period of almost 30 years in the Felix Schoeller Group – one of the world’s largest manufacturers of photographic paper and decor paper. www.interprint.com
Fierce competition and record fundraising at Tim Bloyce Cup The Furniture Makers’ Company’s annual charity five-a-side football tournament returned in spectacular fashion in July, following a three-year hiatus, sporting a new look and identity, with furnishing businesses battling it out to raise the inaugural ‘Tim Bloyce Cup’. The one-day competition, which was sponsored by Ocee Design, took place at the Lucozade Powerleague Football Centre,
Coventry, on Sunday 3rd July 2022. Now in its eighth year, the tournament was renamed the Tim Bloyce Cup in 2022 to honour Tim Bloyce, a life-long football fan and employee of Ocee Design, who was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) in 2021. The event was on par with the biggest ever held, as 15 teams from furnishing retailers, manufacturers, distributors and service providers,
including Celtheath, the Furniture and Home Improvement Ombudsman (FHIO), Hafele, Headlam, Hypnos, JPA Workspaces, Lee Longlands, Ocee Design and Whitemeadow, were all competing to topple returning champions Axminster Tools. At the end of the group stage, the top eight teams progressed to the main competition’s knockout stage, while the top four teams
from the bottom seven competed for the silver plate. After an hour of play, Ocee United and FC Hypnos had beaten off the rest of the competition to claim their spots in the final. Both teams gave everything they had in a hard-fought final but when the final whistle was blown, Ocee United was victorious 5:4. The tournament raised a record £6,518 for the charity. www.furnituremakers.org.uk
