Change of management at WZF GmbH (organisor Interzoo)

Change of management at WZF GmbH (organisor Interzoo

Herbert Bollhöfer departing, Alexandra Facklamm appointed as Managing Director.

Alexandra Facklamm, who has long served as an authorised officer at ZZF/WZF, assumed duties as full‐time management director at WZF GmbH, the organizer of the world’s leading trade fair Interzoo, on 1 January.

Herbert Bollhöfer, who has served on a volunteer basis as managing director of WZF GmbH (Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft Zoologischer Fachbetriebe), a subsidiary of ZZF German Pet Trade & Industry Association, concluded his nearly 20 years of service as a managing director on 31 December 2018.

The ZZF Executive Board, which is concomitantly also the Advisory Board of WZF, has made the subsidiary’s management a full‐time paid position, effective immediately. It thus continues the process of restructuring the ZZF and WZF business office. In Alexandra Facklamm, the Advisory Board has appointed a fulltime managing director who enjoys excellent familiarity with the company.

The holder of a business degree, she has been working for both the association and the company for 17 years – for the last ten years as an authorised officer (Prokuristin).

Facklamm has ambitious goals: “To achieve the association’s goals effectively, WZF as a subsidiary must show a profit overall. At the same time, I hope to help it

sharpen its profile as a service provider for the association and the industry”, she says. The business office is well positioned for such projects. WZF currently has 13 full‐time employees, who not only manage the ZZF association’s activities but serve it by making a professional contribution to the economic and communicative development of the pet industry.