Strong Brands in Dynamic Markets: The Coatings Industry and Its Goals

A record attendance and surplus revenues. Board candidates elected unanimously, successful lobbying, structural reform largely on track. No wonder that the outgoing CEPE chairman Jean-Pierre Monteny was supremely confident at this year's annual general meeting (Noordwijk, Holland, 7-9 June), symbolically, yet totally serenely, relinquishing the chairman's hammer to Pierre-Marie De Leener. The SigmaKalon CEO now heads a CEPE board composed of old and new members.