Christoph Bergmann

Christoph Bergmann currently works as a Marketing Manager for the Apparel & Fashion segment of the Textiles division of Clariant, a global chemical products company, one of the leading suppliers of dyes and chemicals for textiles processing. He manages projects with clothing retailers/brands and their respective textile mill suppliers – that is, working with Clariant's customers' customers. He is responsible for the global coordination of research & development activities in denim, coordinating Clariant's denim centres in LATAM, Asia, Turkey and Spain. A new project for next year is to establish a denim fashion collection made with Clariant dyes and finishes. He is active in promoting, both internally and externally, the need for integration of design and sustainability to achieve quality throughout the supply chain in the company's and their clients' activities. Christoph Bergmann has a background in textile technology and operations management which he studied at Manchester University Institute of Science and Technology. He has worked for many clothing and textile companies including C&A Mode and Schoeller, and was previously Head of Collection Development for Knitwear at Hugo Boss Industries.