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Company transfer: The price as an eternal sticking point

Finding a successor to a company is a difficult business. The fact that it can still be brought to the stage so that in the end it is true for sellers and buyers is shown by examples from the region ...

Complete press article Zürcher Oberländer 31.08.2019 (german)

Succession: That's why it worked

In company succession, many things have to be right. Which criteria are particularly important explain Clemens Ruckstuhl and André Müller, owners of the industrial holding Bachtel Group.

Mr. Müller, Mr. Ruckstuhl: You advised companies and worked in large companies before you started your own business. Did you feel bored? Ruckstuhl: No! It's great to help other companies develop properly. But we knew we wanted to write our own story. Today we manufacture technical components and solutions for the machine, automation and automotive industries. That was our boy dream: to build something that we are proud of ....

Complete press article VZ News / April 2019 (german)

As of the 8th April 2019, the BACHTEL GROUP has taken over a majority shareholding of the KOENIG Automation AG in Wolfhausen, Switzerland. “Our biggest challenge for the future was to secure our strong position in the market and to make the right succession plan“, says Claudia Koenig, the hitherto President of the Advisory Board at Koenig Automation AG. „With the BACHTEL GROUP we have found the perfect partner to secure a succession plan, and with whom we can very happily continue to develop KOENIG“. The KOENIG Automation AG will continue to be led by its Managing Director, Richard Doney. The current shareholders, Rico and Claudia Koenig, and also René Kunz, will continue in their operational roles at KOENIG Automation AG with responsibility for sales and product development.

„We are very pleased to continue the success story of Koenig Automation AG within the BACHTEL GROUP. With the Koenig Automation AG’s machine-loading and unloading solution the «CompactLoader», and Altratec...