Wienerberger Group Appoints Elisabeth Falkner as Head of Investor Relations
February 22, 2021 at 07:20 pm
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Elisabeth Falkner has been appointed to Head of Investor Relations at the Wienerberger Group as of March 1, 2021. She succeeds Anna Grausgruber who is beginning a new chapter in her life and taking maternity leave. In her new function as Head of Investor Relations, Elisabeth Falkner will be responsible for managing communications with the financial markets for the leading supplier of smart building and infrastructure solutions and in her new role she will report directly to Heimo Scheuch, CEO of Wienerberger AG. Elisabeth Falkner joined the Wienerberger Group in early 2019 as a project manager in Corporate Development. During this period, she was instrumental in the successful implementation of Wienerberger's growth-strategy within the framework of M&A transactions. Prior to joining Wienerberger she worked at a leading international consulting firm in both the United Kingdom and in Austria. She holds a Master's degree in Finance & Accounting from Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Wienerberger AG is one of Europe's largest building materials producers. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- walls, ceilings and roofing (54%): perforated bricks, facing bricks, tiles (clay, concrete or chimney tiles). Wienerberger AG is the world's leading producer of bricks;
- pipes (27%): pipes for water conveyance and sewers and concrete floor tiles.
The remaining sales (19%) relate to activity in North America.
At the end of 2022, the group operated 216 industrial sites worldwide.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Germany (6%), the United Kingdom (8.2%), the Netherlands (8%), Austria (5.8%), Poland (5.5%), France (5%), Europe (30.5%), the United States (17.4%) and other (13.6%).