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NEW CEO APPOINTED FOR GREAT LAKES’ BIOLAB SUBSIDIARY
14 December 2004 - Great Lakes Chemical Corporation
| Great Lakes Chemical Corp has named Kevin Dunn President and CEO of its subsidiary BioLab Inc and Corporate Executive Vice President of Specialty Products, effective 4 January 2005. |
Great Lakes Chemical Corp has named Kevin Dunn President and CEO of its subsidiary BioLab Inc and Corporate Executive Vice President of Specialty Products, effective 4 January 2005. Most recently Dunn was President of Playtex Products Inc's Consumer Products Division where since 2000 he managed multiple businesses and brands including Banana Boat sun and skin care, Woolite rug and upholstery cleaners, Ogilvie home permanents, and Binaca breath fresheners. Dunn succeeds Larry Bloom who will take on the newly created role of Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for the company's speciality products business. Bloom joined BioLab in 1970, then a small family business, immediately after graduating from Georgia Tech with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He was named president and chief operating officer in 1987 and in 1999 was promoted to chief executive officer of BioLab and named a corporate officer of Great Lakes.
'This opens an exciting new chapter in the ongoing business evolution for Great Lakes,' said CEO John J. Gallagher III. 'With Kevin's 30 years of extensive experience in consumer packaged goods, and with the benefit of Larry's wealth of experience and insight into recreational water treatment, Great Lakes is well positioned to continue growing our portfolio of brands and expand our position in consumer products.'
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About: Great Lakes Chemical Corporation
Great Lakes Chemical Corp’s products and services help treat and purify water, eliminate germs and contaminants from household surfaces, protect against and extinguish fire, and enhance the stability and performance of a wide range of consumer products, such as computers, electronics, cars, packaging, building materials, and furniture. It serve its customers around the world through an integrated network of research, production, sales, distribution and technical services facilities. The stock of the company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Great Lakes Chemical Corporation is the world’s leading producer of certain specialty chemicals for such applications as water treatment, household cleaners, flame retardants, polymer stabilizers, fire suppression, and performance chemicals. Through its Polymer Additives division, Great Lakes offers a full line of UV stabilizers, antioxidants, additive blends , nucleating agents/clarifiers, and optical monomers, as well as a leading line of flame retardants that include bromine-, phosphorus-, and antimony-based flame retardants and other synergists. These are available as powder blends or in NDB (No Dust Blend) granular form. Each blend contains exactly the correct composition of additives required to achieve optimum polymer quality and productivity. |
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