Laurent Le Mercier joins Tosca as EMEA President

Laurent Le Mercier joins Tosca as EMEA President, bringing over 20 years’ experience in establishing and executing high growth strategies in multicultural organizations.

Tosca, global leader in reusable plastic packaging and performance pooling solutions, is delighted to welcome Laurent Le Mercier as EMEA President, reporting directly to Eric Frank, Chief Executive Officer. Under Laurent’s guidance, Tosca will uphold its reputation for delivering industry-leading service and innovation across the EMEA region.

Most recently, Laurent served as the Chief Executive Officer of a leading French transport and logistics company, Jacky Perrenot with the aim of internationalizing its business in Europe. Previously, he held various executive roles as Chief Commercial Officer at Carousel Logistics, European specialist for time-critical service logistics and as Chief Operations Officer at Transporeon Group, a cloud-based transport and logistics platform.

From 2005 – 2017, Laurent led in various roles for pallet provider CHEP, including Chief Executive Officer for multiple divisions throughout his career there.

Commenting on his appointment as EMEA President, Laurent Le Mercier said:

“ This is a really exciting moment in time joining Tosca to support the ambition in becoming the best and largest reusable plastic packaging provider capable of delivering a full range of sustainable packaging solutions to industry manufacturers, FMCGs, growers as well as retailers”

Eric Frank, CEO, looks forward to what is next for Tosca EMEA and comments:   

“Laurent’s deep history in the reusables industry and working with retailers and FMGC providers will allow him to hit the ground running, while his experience from other facets of the supply chain and business functions give him a unique perspective on how to continue enhancing Tosca for our customers.”