{"id":100172,"date":"2025-03-24T12:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=100172"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T12:17:33","slug":"koenig-bauer-completes-generational-change-on-the-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/koenig-bauer-schliesst-generationenwechsel-im-vorstand-ab\/","title":{"rendered":"Koenig & Bauer completes generational change in the Management Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Stephen Kimmich will become the new CEO of Koenig & Bauer from June 2025. Dr Alexander Blum will take over as CFO in July 2025. This means that the planned reorganisation of the Group's management is almost complete.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With effect from the Annual General Meeting on 4 June 2025, Dr Stephen Kimmich, previously CFO and Deputy CEO, will take over as Chairman of the Management Board of Koenig & Bauer AG. Dr Andreas Ple\u00dfke, current CEO, will remain on the Management Board until his scheduled retirement at the end of 2025 and will take on special tasks until then.<\/p>\n

\u201eI am very pleased that Dr Stephen Kimmich will succeed me as CEO. He has proven in recent years as CFO and deputy CEO that he can lead Koenig & Bauer successfully. With his extensive wealth of knowledge - both in our markets and technologies, in mechanical engineering and in finance - he is the ideal person for this position. In addition, every generational change always brings new impetus to a company.\u201c<\/p>\n

Dr Andreas Ple\u00dfke<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

New CFO: Dr Alexander Blum takes over finance department<\/h4>\n

Dr Alexander Blum will become the new CFO of Koenig & Bauer from 1 July 2025. He succeeds Dr Kimmich, who is moving to the position of CEO. Blum brings with him many years of experience from various industries, including IT, logistics and mechanical engineering - both in family businesses and in listed companies.<\/p>

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Already for the 1 May 2025<\/strong>\u00a0Dr Blum will take up his position to ensure a smooth transition.<\/p>\n

Reduction of the Management Board to two members<\/h4>\n

As part of the programme announced in November 2024\u00a0Reorganisation<\/strong>\u00a0The Management Board will be increased from five\u00a0two members<\/strong> downsized. The Executive Board positions of Christoph M\u00fcller and Ralf Sammeck will be gradually eliminated by June 2025.<\/p>\n

Restructured Group with two segments<\/h3>\n

The Group will be divided into two segments in future:<\/p>\n

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  • Special & New Technologies<\/strong>\u00a0under the direction of\u00a0Christian Steinma\u00dfl<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Paper & Packaging Sheetfed Systems<\/strong>\u00a0under the direction of\u00a0Markus Wei\u00df<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    This new structure should enable the company to,\u00a0more agile to market requirements<\/strong>\u00a0to react.<\/p>\n

    Source:<\/em> Koenig & Bauer AG<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company appoints Dr Stephen Kimmich as CEO.","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":100176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Koenig & Bauer","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[59142,1487,59464,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-100172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personen","8":"tag-news-express","9":"tag-papier-pappe-karton","10":"tag-personen","11":"tag-verpackungsdruck-und-veredelung","12":"cs-entry","13":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}