'Harry Sterk, with a strong senior management experience in the information industry will contribute to our strategy to extend our product lines beyond books to many kinds of electronic teaching tools. The challenges presented by electronic teaching tools open many new opportunities for growth for the coming years', said Mr. Hugh Yarrington, member of the Executive Board and responsible for the Education cluster.
Since 1997, Mr. Sterk was employed with EMAP Communications, an activity of EMAP plc., a UK quoted Media Group, with activities in business media services. During his latest assignment, Mr. Sterk's responsibilities were, among others, information projects/internet, books and trade magazines, tradeshows.
As CEO of the cluster, Mr. Sterk will build on the strategy of the cluster, with a focus on streamlining the operating companies and expanding e-learning activities. The educational publishing has been great business for Wolters Kluwer for many years and will continue to be. Hugh Yarrington: "Books have been essential tools for centuries and we will always produce great educational books. Now, we have an opportunity to build electronic teaching tools for our education markets and to think about using them to serve a broader educational market, including businesses and corporations."
In Europe, Wolters Kluwer is one of the leading publishing groups in the educational sector. The cluster Education has operations in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Hungary. The cluster provides effective teaching and learning solutions (in print and electronic form) to students, teachers and lecturers in primary and secondary education, as well as vocational and higher education. Education cluster operating companies include Wolters-Noordhoff (The Netherlands), Liber (Sweden), Nelson Thornes (UK), WK Education Online (UK), Bildungsverlag EINS (Germany), Jugend & Volk/Bohmann (Austria), Wolters Plantyn (Belgium) and Müszaki (Hungary). |
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Note for the editor:
Wolters Kluwer is a multinational information services company with annual sales of approximately EUR 3.7 billion, employing approximately 19,000 people in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. The company's core activities are Legal, Tax & Business, International Health & Science, and Education. The Wolters Kluwer shares are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam. The financial results for the year 2001 will be announced on March 19, 2002.
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