Ulf Schneider – Nestle chooses Fresenius handlebar Schneider as the new boss – Süddeutsche.de

• Ulf Schneider, the current head of the Fresenius health care group, directs from January 2017. Nestle.
• The 50-year-old tailor had announced his resignation at Fresenius until the weekend.
• Schneider had conducted more than 13 years the fate of the company and significantly expanded the business case.

the Swiss food group Nestlé gets a new boss, and who comes from Germany. However, he also has an American passport. Ulf Schneider, the current head of the Fresenius health care group, takes over from January 2017 the post in Vevey. Schneider succeeds Paul Bulcke, who will assume the chairmanship of the Board. To ensure a smooth transition, Schneider’m starting on September 1 at Nestlé, Nestlé announced on Monday evening. Bulcke predecessor in turn is to be elected at the Annual General Meeting on 6 April 2017 his new office. He inherited Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, who does not arise, according to Nestlé for re-election.

The 50-year-old tailor had announced his resignation at Fresenius until the weekend. He had directed more than 13 years the fate of the company and significantly expanded the business case. Today, the DAX companies with 200 000 people, accounting for approximately 28 billion euros. It is especially tailor merit that the company from Bad Homburg has become so large. Schneider is already left end of the week Fresenius. The amateur photographer is at the head of the Group since May 28 of 2003. He was one of the longest serving head of a DAX company. During his tenure, sales have quadrupled in about.

At Fresenius continuity is key. Successor to Schneider Stephan Sturm, 52, the former CFO, he is then only the sixth head of the 104-year history. He was “the right person,” it said in Bad Homburg, because he knows the company well and have accompanied the growth path. Former investment banker hired Storm 2005 at Fresenius, then hit him skepticism, because he was not from the tray. But along with Schneider he braced billions of acquisitions, including hospitals were taken over by Rhoen-Klinikum. Storm does not really have no desire to be in the public spotlight. He lay there more, threading shops in the background and for Fresenius get the most in financing. “Master of the bonds” once called him Schneider. Companions describe him as hard worker who was also his staff much abverlange.

Fresenius once apparent from the Frankfurter Hirsch Pharmacy and is now a global group in the health care industry. The Group is the largest private hospital operator in Europe, he manufactures liquid generic drugs, the daughter of Fresenius Medical Care (FMC), which is also listed on the Dax, has the highest turnover dialysis company in the world. The Else-Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation is the major shareholder of Fresenius.