Dole Europe GmbH puts faith in new managing director Tobias Deil
The world’s largest fresh produce company Dole has handed overall responsibility for the development of its European customer base to Tobias Deil, who has taken on the role of managing director, Dole Europe GmbH.
The appointment represents Deil’s latest promotion in a series of career progressions up the Dole ranks over the past two decades.
After he joined the Hamburg-based importer as a trainee in 2005, Deil graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 2008.
The company then hired him as a sales executive and he subsequently took on a variety of commercial positions within its Fresh Fruit and Diversified divisions.
In 2012, while he continued to work in the sales and procurement department, Deil began to study for an MBA in Cape Town. During that time, he liaised closely with Dole’s business operation in South Africa.
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