Faerch Group
Thomas Smith is an accomplished executive currently serving as Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at Faerch Group, the leading sustainable food packaging company, since June 2024. Prior to this role, Thomas held various positions at McKinsey & Company from September 2011 to June 2024, including Partner, where responsibilities encompassed leading the Loyalty Practice and Retail and Consumer Goods Practice in Europe, as well as facilitating CEO and board workshops for strategic direction. Thomas possesses a strong background in growth strategies, digital customer engagement, and transformation initiatives within the retail and consumer goods sectors. Earlier career experiences include leadership roles in the hospitality industry and research support at Copenhagen Business School. Educational credentials include a Master’s in CEMS MIM from Università Bocconi and a Master’s in Finance and Strategic Management from Copenhagen Business School, alongside a Bachelor's in International Business from the same institution.
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Faerch Group
Founded in 1969, with headquarters in Holstebro, Denmark, the Faerch Group (‘Faerch’) is a leading European manufacturer of sustainable food packaging solutions within the Ready Meals, Protein, Food-to-Go and Dairy segments. With APET, CPET and MAPET®II, Faerch offer an extensive range of food packaging solutions for all relevant applications, food safe and truly circular. Faerch has taken the lead in making rigid food packaging circular with products made from up to 100% recycled content and fully recyclable to new food grade products. As an integrated recycler, Faerch's products contain market-leading levels of recycled content, and at Faerch’s tray recycling facility in the Netherlands, used food containers collected from across Europe are processed into food grade rPET at industrial scale. The material is used for the manufacture of new food packaging across Faerch’s production sites including the UK. The Group employs more than 2,200 people, spread across production sites in Denmark, Great Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Sales offices cover all of Europe.