Mr. Maniele Tasca, board member of ESD Italy and General Manager of the Selex group, is the new president of the EMD Board of Directors. The 48-years old Italian takes this office from Jaime Rodriguez Bertiz, who held this position for the leading European buying Group during the last two years. His successor, Mr. Tasca, was just elected at the EMD AG shareholders’ meeting in Zurich, Switzerland.
A centralized purchasing alliance
Maniele Tasca, born in 1968, is board member of ESD Italia, the Italian EMD associate. ESD Italia was established in 2001 as a centralized purchasing and marketing alliance. Today the alliance is formed by Selex, Acqua e Sapone, Agorà, Aspiag and Sun groups, comprising 5390 points-of-purchase and a market share of 22% in Italy. In the name of all EMD members, the new President Maniele Tasca thanked Mr. Jaime Rodriguez Bertiz for his excellent guidance and achievements during his presidency in the past two years. During his office EMD has developed continuously. In the year 2016 the purchasing alliance acquired with the Wal-Mart subsidiary Asda one of the major retailers in the United Kingdom as a new member. Almost simultaneously, the German retailer Kaufland integrated the purchasing of branded products for its Eastern European locations into EMD. In 2017, the German hypermarket specialist Globus followed. Additionally, Australian retailer Woolworths Ltd. has integrated its total European procurement volume for its private label product ranges into Europe’s leading buying group. The EMD-platform gives suppliers more and more opportunities to expand their business together with our powerful members. The growing number of suppliers is proof of the interest in our business model, said Tasca.
Group Profile
EMD was established in 1989 and is one of the leading purchasing alliances in Europe, representing a total of €178 billion in sales in Europe alone. The group operates in 20 European countries, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. The purchasing alliance is active worldwide in the procurement of private label products and in negotiating with manufacturers of branded products at transnational level.