{"id":10149,"date":"2016-09-06T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/09\/06\/bromma-appoints-new-president-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:57:07","slug":"bromma-appoints-new-president-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/bromma-appoints-new-president-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bromma appoints new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Virtanen has previously held different senior management positions in Bromma and Cargotec, including managing director for Bromma Malaysia from 2009 to 2013, and vice president of global sourcing for the same company from 2013 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing his appointment, Mr Virtanen said: \u201cBromma is a great company. The people, the culture and the capabilities have taken it to where it is today. I am honoured to be appointed to lead such a great company \u2013 it feels like coming home again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Antti Kaunonen, chairman of the board of Bromma, said that he was \u201cvery pleased\u201d to welcome Mr Virtanen back to Bromma. \u201cMika has a proven track record of developing global businesses and building successful partnerships,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to his long history in the company, he already knows the organization and the business. I wish him the best of success in driving Bromma further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Virtanen will be based in Bromma\u2019s head office in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mika Virtanen has been appointed president of Sweden-based spreader manufacturer Bromma, effective September 1, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,63],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment","category-products-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10151,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions\/10151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}