Cologne, 10.11.2021
Markus Tkotz, CEO of Markant AG, was unanimously elected as the new President of the EHI Retail Institute e.V. for a term of three years at the EHI general meeting. Tkotz has been an active member of the EHI Board of Directors since 2011. «We are pleased to appoint Markus Tkotz as the new EHI President. He has years of retail experience at Markant AG and will make a valuable contribution to EHI's research», explains CEO Michael Gerling.
Tkotz has been CEO of Markant AG since 2011. The company with its head office in Switzerland acts as a service centre for suppliers and retailers in European food retail and is represented at 13 locations with approximately 1,100 employees worldwide. He was previously employed at Procter & Gamble and Roland Berger.
We also said goodbye to Kurt Jox who has managed EHI as President since 2018. Jox was most recently CEO of Tessner Holding and retired this year.