Latexco Appoints New CEO

Furniture World News Desk on 12/4/2016

From left to right:  left-to-right; Ben Ducatteeuw, Luc Maes and Vincent Gesquiere.


The Latexco Board of directors recently announced the appointment of Mr. Ben Ducatteeuw as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Latexco US. Ben will assume this position effective Monday, January 2nd, 2017.

Since its first Latex production in Lavonia Georgia over ten years ago, Latexco US has steadily grown with its base of quality customers in both products and sales. The solid reputation on latex along with the strong focus on the development of specific technical PU foams (Comfort layers of FOM) has proved to be successful.

Ben Ducatteeuw brings the experience to meet these challenges through a proven record of operational leadership, strategy development, customer service, team building, financial management and relationship management. 

As managing director for the Deslee-Clama innovation center for the last five years, Ben had corporate oversight of sales and innovations within the mattress ticking industry. With a career in the bedding industry of over 15 years, Ben has also held sales leadership positions within sales and marketing with Deslee-Clama.

In order to further grow the Latexco US success story Ben, together with our COO Bob Carstens, will be critical in managing our operational effectiveness. 

As Latexco US moves forward with a new Chief Executive Officer, a special thank you must be expressed to Vincent Gesquiere who has been leading our US activities since the start. He has grown the business and been a driving force for the strategic choices over the past decade.  Vincent will move back to Belgium after transitioning the executive leadership to Ben.