Ka whakaingoatia e Valio a Matti Lehmus hei Tumuaki mo muri i a Annikka Hurme e whakareri ana ki te reti

Kua pānuitia e te kamupene miraka me te kai o Pinirana, a Valio, ka reti a Annikka Hurme, te Tumu Whakarae, i te mutunga o te tau 2026 whai muri i te neke atu i te toru tekau tau e mahi ana ki te kamupene.

 

Kua whakatūria e te poari whakahaere o te kamupene a Matti Lehmus hei Tumu Whakahaere Matua mō Valio, mai i te 1 o Hānuere 2027. Ka noho tonu a Hurme ki tana tūranga o nāianei tae noa ki te mutunga o te tau hei tautoko i te whakawhiti.

I uru atu a Hurme ki Valio i te tau 1989, ā, he maha ngā tūranga kaiārahi i puritia e ia i a ia e mahi ana. Kua mahi ia hei Tumu Whakahaere Matua mai i te tau 2014, e tirotiro ana i tētahi wā o te panonitanga rautaki me te tipu.

E ai ki te heamana o te poari, a Vesa Kaunisto, he mahi nui tā Hurme ki te whakapakari i te hua o Valio me te whakawhānui ake i tōna aroaro ki te ao. I a ia e ārahi ana, i whakawhānui ake te kamupene i tua atu i ana mahi miraka tuku iho, i te whakatipu i tana putea tipu, i te urunga atu ki te rāngai koiora me te whakawhānui ake ki ngā mahi rarawe.

"He kaiārahi mātau a Matti Lehmus, ā, he pakari tana hītori mō te whakawhanake me te whakatipu pakihi i roto i a Finland me te ao whānui," te kōrero a Kaunisto. I tāpiri atu ia ko te wheako o Lehmus ki te ārahi i ngā kaupapa tipu o te ao e hangai ana ki te rautaki a Valio, e arotahi ana ki te whakawhānui o te ao, te whakapakari i ngā waitohu tipu me te whakateretere i te whanaketanga pakihi hou.

Ka uru atu a Lehmus ki Valio whai muri i tana mahi roa i te kamupene hinu whakahinuhinu a Neste, i reira i puritia e ia ētahi tūranga kaiārahi matua, tae atu ki te perehitini me te Tumu Whakahaere Matua i waenga i te tau 2022 me te 2024. Kei te poari hoki ia i Kemira i tēnei wā.

I tana kōrero mō tana whakatūnga, i mea a Lehmus: "He whai wāhitanga nui tēnei ki te ārahi i a Valio, he tūranga motuhake tōna i roto i te umanga kai o Pinirana. He pakari te turanga o Valio: he kaimahi pūkenga, he waitohu whakaute, me te kaha ki te whakawhanake i ngā hua hou."

"Kei te tino hiahia ahau ki te mahi tahi me ngā kaimahi o Valio ki te waihanga i te tipu mō te wā roa, me te whakapakari i te whakataetae i roto i tētahi taiao whakahaere e hurihuri ana, me te whai wāhi hoki ki te whakamahi i aku wheako ki tētahi umanga hou."

I tāpiri atu a Hurme: "He honore nui te whai wāhi atu ki tēnei kaupapa hei mahi mā te kamupene rongonui a Valio. Kua whanake tonu te kamupene i roto i ngā wā, ā, kua ārahi i te ara mō te umanga katoa. E harikoa ana ahau ki te tuku i te tokotoko ki taku uri i te tīmatanga o te tau, ā, e tumanako ana ahau ki te whai i te upoko e whai ake nei o te kōrero angitu a Valio."