Dual appointment at the head of DS Smith

In this position, he is responsible for the company’s innovation agenda, and will also be tasked with identifying innovation solutions and opportunities in the Eastern European region. The new managing director of DS Smith in Hungary is Levente Szabó, who has already achieved success in many positions and has been working at DS Smith for 12 years now. As the company’s new director, he continues the successful strategy of recent years along ambitious growth goals, in which the provision of the strongest customer-focused services is among the goals.

Zsolt Fekete, who has managed DS Smith’s Hungarian company for more than 20 years, has received a new assignment and continues to work as regional business development director of DS Smith’s Packaging Division. In his new role, the professional who started his career in the paper industry in 1985 is primarily responsible for the innovation area that defines the company’s strategy at the Eastern European level, within the framework of which his work will be to search for and define innovative solutions and opportunities, as well as identify related technologies. In addition, the newly created so-called He will also be a member of the Innovation Council.