In a management shake-up of the French-owned company, Cyrille du Peloux has been promoted to head up the world-wide operations of its sister company Veolia Transport.
Jean-Dominique Mallet will take over Veolia's UK waste operations as well as the waste company's activities in Ireland, Scandinavia (not including Denmark), the Baltic States, the Benelux countries and Germany.
Mr Mallet has been the director of Veolia's international businesses and has been involved in the company winning municipal contracts including those in Alexandria, Egypt, and Abu Dhabi.
A Veolia Environmental Services spokesperson told letsrecycle.com: “Cyrille du Peloux, formerly CEO of Veolia Environmental Services in UK and Northern Europe has been promoted to the position of CEO of Veolia Transport worldwide. He has made a major contribution to the growth and success of Veolia Environmental Services.
“Jean-Dominique Mallet has been appointed as his successor taking over the leadership of Veolia Environmental Services' activities in the UK and Northern Europe,” the company spokesperson confirmed.
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Mr du Peloux, 53, has held the chief executive post at Veolia Environmental Services since 2002 (see letsrecycle.com story).
During his time at the company, Mr du Peloux has steered the company through a major rebranding from its identity as Onyx as well as a considerable expansion of the company – including the 589 million acquisition of rival waste firm Cleanaway last year (see letsrecycle.com story). The company now has a turnover of around 1.1 billion, employing 13,000 staff in waste management and cleaning services, in 90 local authority contracts.
His work has also involved the development of major municipal contracts including those in Sheffield and Hampshire as well as gaining a major new PFI contract in Nottinghamshire.
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Mr du Peloux was also chairman of the Environmental Services Association in 2005/06.
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