{"id":1004147649,"date":"2016-07-07T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T17:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004147649"},"modified":"2020-05-18T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T00:24:42","slug":"blackstone-makes-top-addition-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/blackstone-makes-top-addition-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone Makes Top Addition in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1004147693\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Marc-Bolland-Blackstone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004147693\" data-attachment-id=\"1004147693\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/blackstone-makes-top-addition-in-europe\/marc-bolland-blackstone-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Marc-Bolland-Blackstone.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"445,395\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Marc Bolland, Blackstone\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Marc Bolland, Blackstone&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Marc-Bolland-Blackstone.jpg?w=445\" class=\"wp-image-1004147693 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Marc-Bolland-Blackstone.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Bolland, Blackstone\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Marc-Bolland-Blackstone.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Marc-Bolland-Blackstone.jpg?resize=300,266 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004147693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marc Bolland, Blackstone<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>London<\/strong>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackstone.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Blackstone<\/a> recently announced the naming of Marc Bolland as head of European portfolio operations  for its private equity business.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch retail veteran boasts an impressive track record, having served as CEO for British multinational retailer Marks &amp; Spencer, chief executive of Morrisons\u2014United Kingdom\u2019s fourth largest retail chain\u00ad\u00ad\u2014and COO of beer giant Heineken. Bolland\u2019s position with Blackstone will be effective September 19.<\/p>\n<p>Bolland started with Heineken in the Netherlands in 1987. Prior to being COO, he successively covered several management positions, including managing director of Heineken Export Group Worldwide and managing director of Heineken Slovenia. He joined Morrisons in 2006, prior to his CEO position with Marks &amp; Spencer, which he occupied between May 2010 and April 2016. Recently, Bolland was also named non-executive director on the board of the International Airlines Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Bolland) has had an outstanding career leading and developing major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/international\/\" target=\"_blank\">international businesses<\/a>, and I am sure he will add great value to our current and future portfolio businesses,\u201d said Joseph Baratta, global head of private equity at Blackstone, in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of The Coca-Cola Company<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Bolland, former executive at Marks &#038; Spencer and Heineken, will lead the powerhouse\u2019s European portfolio operations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":1004147693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21783,21742,21744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004147649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-investment","category-latest","category-people"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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