The latest personnel news at CLR is that Petra Anni Schmidt was appointed marketing director. She will coordinate and evaluate CLR's marketing activities worldwide, according to the company. Schmidt has spent the last nine years working for CLR (Chemisches Laboratorium Dr. Kurt Richter GmbH, Berlin), as international technical sales manager responsible for CLR's business in Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and the north of Germany. She holds degrees in both cosmetics science and sales and marketing.