Barentz Expands Westcoast North American CASE Team

Barentz, a leading distributor of life science ingredients and specialty chemical solutions throughout North America, is excited to welcome Brad Baumann to our expanding CASE & Plastics technical sales team as a Sales Manager covering the Westcoast.

Brad's extraordinary 20+ year career as a strong technical sales professional brings to Barentz a proven track record of success in building customer relationships and driving sales in the plastics, coatings, textile, graphic arts, agriculture, and cosmetics color markets. For the past 20 years, Brad sharpened his skillset aggressively building a multi-million dollar sales territory for the inventor of fluorescent color and the world's largest manufacturer of daylight fluorescent pigment. His extensive experience with custom colors and resins with both fluorescent and conventional dispersions, as well as aqueous, zero VOC, polyurethane, polyaspartic, plasticizer, epoxy, and alkyd dispersions, will help drive significant growth to the CASE market throughout the Western region.

"We're very excited to welcome Brad to the Barentz team leading sales initiatives for our CASE businesses in the West," Howard Hubert, CCO and President of CASE & Plastics, said. "His legacy of commercial success, a well-earned professional reputation, and extensive market knowledge are a great asset to drive our growth and provide leadership in the region."

About Barentz
Barentz is a leading global life science ingredients and specialty chemicals distributor for the Human Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Personal Care, Specialty Industrial, and Animal Nutrition markets. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Barentz distributes ingredients for products to small- and medium-sized enterprises and large customers globally. The Group sources branded specialty ingredients from leading manufacturers worldwide and its ingredients experts provide value-added technical support (including pre-mixing, blending, customized formulation and testing) from its state-of-the-art, customized formulation centers and application laboratories in EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

Established in 1953, Barentz has operations in more than 60 countries with a strong presence in Europe and Asia, and a growing presence in North America and Latin America. With a turnover of 1.5 billion the company employs around 1,500 people worldwide and serves over 21,000 customers. For more information, please visit: www.barentz-na.com.