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BASF names Eduardo Padilla as Director of Corporate Distribution for North America
Padilla joined BASF in 2009 as part of the Ciba Corporation acquisition. He has served in a variety of leadership positions in the specialty chemicals markets, and has worked for BASF’s Dispersions & Pigments business since April, 2009.
With the Dispersions & Pigments business, Padilla successfully implemented a regional distribution strategy to improve profitable growth following the portfolio expansions from the acquisitions of Ciba Corporation and Cognis Corporation.
BASF’s Corporate Distribution group reports to the Regional President of Market and Business Development for North America and is responsible for coordinating, evaluating and implementing distributor channel programs across the region.
Padilla will lead efforts to strengthen relationships with national and regional distributing partners and develop activities and programs to drive profitable sales growth through the distributor channel. His team will manage and support the distributor channel partners to service customers by leveraging BASF’s broad product portfolio.
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BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has more than 16,000 employees in North America, and had sales of $20 billion in 2011. For more information about BASF’s North American operations, visit www.basf.us.
BASF is the world’s leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. We combine economic success, social responsibility and environmental protection. Through science and innovation we enable our customers in almost all industries to meet the current and future needs of society. Our products and system solutions contribute to conserving resources, ensuring healthy food and nutrition and helping to improve the quality of life. We have summed up this contribution in our corporate purpose: We create chemistry for a sustainable future. BASF posted sales of about €73.5 billion in 2011 and had more than 111,000 employees as of the end of the year. Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com.
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