Since March 5, the Robau consortium, founded by Stefan Pierer, Mark Matschitz and two companies from the Upper Austria of Raiffeisenlandsebank, has the majority of Rosenbauer. Now the new owner of the Fire Brigade Outfitter surprised the invitation for the annual general meeting. It was known that neither Mateschitz nor Pierer will move to the supervisory board.
For months the Robau consortium had not made no secret of whom the supervisory Council of Rosenbauer would move after the capital increase was completed and the next majority takeover. In addition to Gernot Hofer, head of the investment business participation of Raiffeisen, and Fritz Rweithner of Pierer Industrie AG were always called Mark Mateschitz and Stefan Pierer.
Extraordinary General Meeting on April 1
After the majority of the acquisition has been set for a few days, the plans apparently changed again. When Rosenbauer invited on Monday afternoon on 1 April to the extraordinary general meeting, where the board of directors was reorganized, it was shown that it was not Mark Matechitz of the election for the supervisory board, but Florian Hutter as director of Mark Matschitz Beteiligungs AG. By Stefan Pierer, who was recently criticized for the bankruptcy at KTM, there is no longer any question regarding the Rosenbauer Supervisory Board.
“The nominated people are experienced managers of the Robau shareholder and enjoy the full support from the owner’s side around Stefan Pierer, Mark Matschitz and Raiffeisenlandebank Oberösterreich,” says Robau in a broadcast.
The leading position is to be expanded worldwide
The current Rosenbauer Supreme Court Jörg Astaosch has been back for a long time: Bernhard Matzner and Martin Zehnder also leave the supervisory board. The aim of the newly composed supervisory board, in which Roelher, Hutter and Hofer should now move, is to support management in the implementation of the strategy to further expand its global leading position as a fire brigade.
“With Robau we have a new owner of the strong majority with whom we will further develop the positioning of our group as the world market leader,” says CEO Sebastian Wolf, who describes the successful completion of the capital increase as “new chapter in the history of the company”.
Source: Krone
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