Carl Elsener junior

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Carl Elsener (2018)

Carl Elsener junior (* 1958 ) is a Swiss entrepreneur and has been CEO of Victorinox AG since 2007 , a family company that employed 2,000 people worldwide in 2015.

Life

Carl Elsener junior is the great-grandson of Karl Elsener (1860–1918) and the son of Carl Elsener senior (1922–2013). In 1884, Karl Elsener opened a factory for the manufacture of knives and surgical instruments in Ibach , from which the Victorinox knife factory developed.

In October 2000, Elsener founded the Victorinox Foundation together with his father and his brother Eduard Elsener as a successor solution in order to ensure the continued existence and prosperity of the family business. The foundation holds 75 percent of the shares in Victorinox AG, another 15 percent belong to the charitable Carl u. Elise Elsener-Gut Foundation . The Elsener family still own 10 percent of the shares.

Since 2007 he has been managing the company as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. The board of directors consists of five family members; other family members from two generations work in the company.

Elsener is married to Veronika Elsener and they have three children together. Veronika also works in the company.

Awards

literature

  • Heidy Gasser : Victorinox - the knife makers from Ibach , 3rd volume in the book series «Central Switzerland on the way to today», Verlag der Albert Koechlin Foundation, 2009, ISBN 978-3-905446-07-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Vonlanthen: Razor-sharp trust in God. Idea Spektrum, Belp October 28, 2015, page 8
  2. ↑ Entry Victorinox Foundation on moneyhouse.ch, accessed on June 7, 2013
  3. ↑ Foundation: Sustainable Stability ( Memento of October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), article in No. 11 of the Swissconsultants.ch series: Successful Succession , p. 14, accessed on June 7, 2013
  4. ↑ He made Victorinox a global brand , article in the Tages-Anzeiger from June 3, 2013
  5. ↑ Andrea Vonlanthen: Razor-sharp trust in God. Idea Spektrum, Belp October 28, 2015, pages 8-10
  6. ^ Cover text of the book ( Memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Elsener, Carl junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1958