About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere Europe 2013
published on 16 October 2013
11 pages
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Georgios Patkos presents Delhaize's refrigeration strategy within the corporate sustainability strategy. Trials have already shown the improvements that are achieved by CO₂ transcritical stores. Furthermore Patkos addresses the challenges to adopt CO₂ refrigeration technology immediately and provided an outlook on the steps required to further increase the number of Delhaize's CO₂ stores.

About the speaker(s)

Georgios Patkos

 

Mr. Patkos worked as Delhaize's Director of the Technical Department until the end of July 2015. In this role, he was in charge of all the new constructions projects, remodelings and maintenance of all the stores and warehouses in Belgium and Luxembourg. He was appointed as the Contract Manager at Delhaize in November 2005. His primary responsibility was to streamline all existing maintenance and service contracts in all EU banners.

Before joining Delhaize Group, he worked for Johnson Controls, as a global market leader in automotive systems and in facility management and control as a Refrigeration Manager. In that position, he took care of the account management for, among others, Delhaize, Carrefour, Cora and Shell. Before that, he was CEO of Schatten for several years until the merge with Johnsons Controls in 2002.

He studied refrigeration in Greece, where he was born, and also at the Institut of Arts et Métiers in Brussels. Mr. Patkos followed a management course at the Solvay Business School and has been Vice President of the “Union Belge des Frigoristes” for many years.