The year 2023 was an important transition year for Simac, both in terms of organisation and returns. A key moment took place on 1 October 2023. On that day, Maartje van Schagen was appointed CEO of Simac. After 34 years, the baton within the family was handed over to the third generation. Meanwhile, the decision was also made to move into a new head office in Veldhoven. The move will take place in the course of 2024.
The year 2023 was an important transition year for Simac, both in terms of organisation and returns. A key moment took place on 1 October 2023. On that day, Maartje van Schagen was appointed CEO of Simac. After 34 years, the baton within the family was handed over to the third generation. Meanwhile, the decision was also made to move into a new head office in Veldhoven. The move will take place in the course of 2024.
Major causes
Maartje van Schagen explained, "The negative result has a number of important causes that are mainly reflected in the Dutch operations. The retail sector is one of our focus markets and it is under pressure. At the same time, we faced a strong increase in staff costs and continued to invest continuously in innovation, transformation and new activities. This was offset by increased customer and employee satisfaction. There were also other very positive developments, including strengthening our position in the retail market by acquiring the IT operations and 75 employees of the IT part of Detailresult Services. This is the former IT division of supermarket chains Dirk van den Broek and DekaMarkt. These are key indicators of future success. Results in all foreign countries were as expected."
Confidence in the future
"Looking to 2024, we are confident that we can continue the positive results abroad and that the results in the core business in the Netherlands will gradually increase. The retail market will also remain challenging in 2024, in other markets such as healthcare we see healthy growth. We will continue to need time and investments to further grow innovations and new activities and bring them to positive returns."
