Co-owner at exposant trois
Brussels Area, Belgium
- Current
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- Co-owner at exposant trois
- Past
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- Freelance Marketing & Communication Manager at Horas International sa / Artemide Benelux
- Freelance Co-ordinator at Designers Week-End asbl
- Freelance Marketing & Communication assistant at Horas International sa / Artemide Benelux
- Shiftleader at Pizza Hut
- Commissioner’s assistant at Art Master International asbl
- Student job at Moniteur de l'Automobile
- Student job at Moniteur de l'Automobile
- Student job at Moniteur de l'Automobile
- Education
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- Institut Libre Marie Haps - Université catholique de Louvain
- Institut Libre Marie Haps - Université catholique de Louvain
- I.A.E. Brussels
- EPFC (ULB-CCB)
- Institut Notre-Dame de la Paix
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Damien Taymans’s Summary
Marketing and communication specialist with a multifaceted experience built on communication strategy, PR and media planning. Articulate and fluent in French, English and Dutch I am interested in orienting my career internationally.
Damien Taymans’s Specialties:
B2B and B2C communication, media planning, press relations, event co-ordination, direct marketing, PC literate
Damien Taymans’s Experience
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Co-owner
exposant trois
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Sharing an 8 year common experience in organizing events and communicating around them, associating complementary skills, a shared enthusiasm for written communication…
One approach in three steps: comprehend, adapt, diffuse!
exposant trois develops and coordinates all your written documents: magazines, brochures, newsletters, mailings and annual reports …
From ideas to production follow-up, through composition, translation, graphic design, printing and putting information on-line.
exposant trois adapts and sends the major components of your press communication: press releases, press kits, press meetings and campaign follow-up…
An integrated service to each step of the project, applying commonly defined strategy, adapted to the characteristics of every sector and market. -
Freelance Marketing & Communication Manager
Horas International sa / Artemide Benelux
(Furniture industry)
September 2000 — December 2007 (7 years 4 months)
- Marketing & Communication manager for Horas International sa. A company importing and distributing contemporary furniture and design lighting system over the Benelux countries and France as Artemide, Foscarini, Leucos, Ycami and Herman Miller.
- Elaborating and budgeting communication and media campaigns. Media planning depending of previous campaigns results analyze. Aim: B2B as well as B2C targets. Co-ordination and production follow-up of promotional material.
- Sales network: together with the sales area managers for each country implementation of a strategy to stimulate sales channels.
- Development of new communication media : on line shopping, e-mailing campaigns
- Copywriting and production of press releases for decoration and lifestyle magazines. -
Freelance Co-ordinator
Designers Week-End asbl
(Events Services industry)
October 1995 — December 2007 (12 years 3 months)
Co-ordination of Designers Week-End event.
Budget and costs control. Target: increase of the number of visitors both professional and end-users. An increase of more than 30% has been registered for the last three years (2003-2006). -
Freelance Marketing & Communication assistant
Horas International sa / Artemide Benelux
(Furniture industry)
October 1995 — August 2000 (4 years 11 months)
Assisting the department manager in her daily works.
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Shiftleader
Pizza Hut
(Public Company; YUM; Restaurants industry)
February 1994 — September 1995 (1 year 8 months)
Customer services at Drogenbos subsidiary. Shiftleader at Bruparck’s express shop: daily management, production control and team supervising.
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Commissioner’s assistant
Art Master International asbl
(Events Services industry)
July 1992 — January 1994 (1 year 7 months)
World Impressionist Exhibition Commissioner’s assistant. Collecting and organising pieces of information about impressionist’s master pieces from 150 museums and private collections worldwide.
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Student job
Moniteur de l'Automobile
(Media Production industry)
September 1990 — November 1990 (3 months)
Copywriter to sum up all "essais" and "referendum" from the previous year edition of Moniteur de l'Automobile magazine following a template limited to a number of characters.
The summarized texts were used for the yearly issue of Moniteur de l'Automobile "Guide d'achats" edited in January each year. -
Student job
Moniteur de l'Automobile
(Media Production industry)
September 1989 — November 1989 (3 months)
Copywriter to sum up all "essais" and "referendum" from the previous year edition of Moniteur de l'Automobile magazine following a template limited to a number of characters.
The summarized texts were used for the yearly issue of Moniteur de l'Automobile "Guide d'achats" edited in January each year. -
Student job
Moniteur de l'Automobile
(Media Production industry)
September 1988 — November 1988 (3 months)
Copywriter to sum up all "essais" and "referendum" from the previous year edition of Moniteur de l'Automobile magazine following a template limited to a number of characters.
The summarized texts were used for the yearly issue of Moniteur de l'Automobile "Guide d'achats" edited in January each year.
Damien Taymans’s Education
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Institut Libre Marie Haps - Université catholique de Louvain
Dutch 1995 — 1996
D-level - cum laude
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Institut Libre Marie Haps - Université catholique de Louvain
English 1995 — 1996
4-level - satisfecit
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I.A.E. Brussels
Marketing and Management sessions 1992 — 1992
Evening courses
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EPFC (ULB-CCB)
Bachelor , Public Relations , 1989 — 1991
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Institut Notre-Dame de la Paix
Social sciences, languages and mathematics 1980 — 1988
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Damien Taymans’s Interests:
Gardening, blogging, graphic design
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Marketing Communication
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