Alain Caparros

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Alain Caparros (born September 17, 1956 in Tiaret , French North Africa , today Algeria ) is a German manager of French origin.

Life

Caparros grew up in French North Africa and fled in 1962 in the course of the Algerian War of Independence together with his parents to Pont-à-Mousson in France. He studied business administration until 1981 at Saarland University and Metz University . He was employed by Groupe Yves Rocher until 1994 , most recently as Vice President from 1991. Then he was regional managing director of the Paris - Dammartin branch at Aldi France until 1999, and from 1999 chairman of the board of Aldi Service Plus (ASP), the French market leader in catering supplies.

From 2000 he was also a member of the management of the Swiss ASP partner Bon Appetit Group , which was taken over by the REWE Group in 2003 , most recently as its CEO. From July 1, 2004, he was a member of the REWE management team in Cologne , and since 2006 CEO of the REWE Group.

In October 2010 he was appointed to the Karstadt Supervisory Board by Berggruen Holding and elected its chairman. On April 11, 2011, he resigned from this post with immediate effect. A few days later he publicly criticized Nicolas Berggruen and his plans to split Karstadt.

From the beginning of 2014, Caparros was also President of Core , a procurement alliance of European retail chains in which the Rewe Group was also represented. REWE left Core again in 2015 to enter into an alliance with E.Leclerc . Caparros asked the REWE supervisory board to terminate his mandate as CEO on June 30, 2017. The supervisory board complied with this request; At the beginning of July 2017, Lionel Souque became the new CEO of the REWE Group. Caparros switched to the clothing company C&A . On March 20, 2019, it was announced that he was leaving his chief position at C&A for health reasons; he had a heart attack in the fall of 2018.

Private

In September 2015, Caparros received German citizenship and gave up his French citizenship. He praised the German refugee policy as the “lighthouse of humanity in Europe” and is ashamed today to come from France.

He describes his leadership style as "tough, but only on the matter". At the same time, he considers emotions to be indispensable in his work - to like his environment and to be interested in his employees.

Alain Caparros is married, has three children and lives in Düsseldorf.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Corinna Nohn, Georg Weishaupt: Alain Caparros vacates the head of the fashion group C&A. In: Handelsblatt . March 20, 2019, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Brigitte Koch: Alain Caparros: Knallhart with a soft accent . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ Personnel restructuring : Rewe boss should lead Karstadt's supervisory board . ftd.de. October 6, 2010. Archived from the original on October 7, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  4. ^ "No strategy": Ex-overseer attacks Karstadt rescuer Berggruen . In: Spiegel Online , April 16, 2011. Accessed on July 17, 2011. "This 'Separation' operation holds 'a potential for weakening the core business for which I, as the company's Supervisory Board, do not want to be responsible.'" 
  5. ↑ Rewe founded the Core purchasing alliance with three partners. A year later the trading group resigns and changes allies. The company also wants to cooperate with E.Leclerc on other topics. - Handelsblatt, June 5, 2015
  6. ↑ Alain Caparros: Rewe boss leaves much earlier than expected . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed April 12, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Rewe boss Alain Caparros is now German . handelsblatt.com. Accessed September 3, 2016
  8. ↑ Louis Lewitan: "That was my salvation" - Interview with Alain Caparros: "People need a boss". Zeit.de, May 4, 2017, accessed May 31, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Jochen Schuster: Economy: “I don't miss a fight” . Focus 46 (2010), November 15, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Caparros, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiaret , Algeria