Sunds, May 30, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Thorsens Chipskartofler A/S presents generational change. After several years of planning, Thorsens Chipskartofler A/S is making a generational change in 2024 and has hired a new CEO as of July 1, 2024. The board’s choice was Jacob Roland Pedersen. Jacob is 52 years old, lives with his family in Vejle, and has a background as Director of Chicken Production at Danpo A/S and CEO of Rokkedahl Food ApS.
As Jacob has no prior knowledge of chip potatoes, or the industry in general, prior to his appointment as CEO, there is an introduction to the company where the entire organization participates in giving Jacob the best possible insight. Current CEO Erik Bech Thorsen will continue as an employee of the company for 12 months after the CEO change. However, there will not be actual work tasks, but more a form of supervisor, to the extent desired.
Deep passion for chip potatoes. Jacob Roland Pedersen finds that there is a great deal of passion and insight about the value chain for chip potatoes among the employees, and everyone really makes a great effort to get me tuned into this unique high-value production. Thorsens Chipskartofler is a very exciting company that is owned by competent suppliers and has built up a unique concept for high-value products in collaboration with customers. I’m looking forward to getting deeper into the work and will of course be meeting both customers and shareholders in the near future.
Erik Bech Thorsen, who founded the company in 1986, looks back on a very exciting working life after all these years as director of the company. It is a life’s work that has been created and steadily developed in faithful collaboration with employees, farmers/shareholders and customers. Erik Thorsen is very grateful for all the support over the years that has driven the company to what it is today. After recent years of adversity from many sides, Erik Thorsen sees a bright future for the company. We have managed to turn the situation around and the outlook looks very positive for the coming seasons. Erik Thorsen hopes for the company that the basic culture and concept can be maintained, but as before, continue to be continuously developed.
The chairman of the board of Thorsens Chipskartofler A/S Kurt Friis Jørgensen is pleased with the choice of Jacob Roland Pedersen, and there has been an opportunity for Jacob to learn from the competent employees in the company. Our concept has evolved into something quite unique, and despite major challenges over the past few years, I am both confident and positive about the future.
Sincerely
Thorsens Chipskartofler A/S
V. Sneptrupvej 3
7451 Sunds