Polish management comes to China

Human resources
CHINA From September Anna Pawlak-Kuliga, the current CEO of Ikea Retail Polska, will be responsible for China Ikea’s largest global market in the world.
After five years of working in Poland, including two as the CEO of Ikea Retail, she is take on the post of the CEO of Ikea in China. Board member Iwona Szczęka is to take over her duties as the president of the company in Poland. Anna Pawlak-Kuliga took over the position the CEO of Ikea Retail in September 2016, becoming the first Pole to manage the Polish branch of the company. She has been employed by Ikea for ten years. In 2012 she returned to Poland from the UK, to join the board of Ikea Re
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