Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

Brabeck-Letmathe (2003)

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (born November 13, 1944 in Villach ) is an Austrian manager. From 2005 to 2017 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nestlé .

Life

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe passed his Matura at the Peraugymnasium in Villach in 1962 .

After studying economics at the University of World Trade in Vienna , Brabeck began working for Nestlé Austria as a specialist in new products in 1968. In 1997, he replaced Helmut Maucher as Chairman of the Executive Committee at Nestlé. From 2005 to 2017 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors . On April 10, 2008, he resigned as CEO of Nestlé. His successor was the long-time head of Nestlé's America business, Paul Bulcke . Paul Bulcke also succeeded him as Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2017.

After a name change, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe bears the name of the noble family Brabeck , who died out in the 19th century and who owned the Letmathe family in what is now the area of the town of Iserlohn from 1573 to 1812 and accordingly assumed the title Letmathe.

In 2012, the Swiss business magazine Bilanz estimated his fortune at 150 million Swiss francs. Despite being diagnosed with cancer in 2014, Brabeck-Letmathe was able to continue performing its duties, according to Nestlé. He announced his resignation in spring 2017.

Awards

2006: Great Golden Decoration with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria

Publications

2016: Nutrition for a better life: a journey from the beginnings of industrial food production to nutrigenomics , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-50596-1

literature

Friedhelm Schwarz: Creating values together ...: Peter Brabeck-Letmathe and Nestlé - a portrait. Stämpfli Verlag , Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7272-1301-4

Web links

Commons : Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Peter Brabeck-Letmathe in the catalog of the German National Library
Peter Brabeck's curriculum vitae on nestle.com ( Memento from April 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Chairman Emeritus) on nestle.com
Scarcity of resources »The stock exchange is the solution« ZEIT interview from August 19, 2010
"Without water, everything comes to a standstill at Nestlé, water is central to us" Interview in the Tages-Anzeiger on September 2, 2010

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Small newspaper: Brabeck-Letmathe: His last appearance at the Nestlé General Assembly . Article dated April 6, 2017, accessed August 17, 2017.

↑ Peter Brabeck-Letmathe. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .

^ Verlag Justus Perthes (ed.): Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch der Graefliche Häuser, Jg. 40, 1867 (appendix). Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch der Graeflichen Häuser, 40th year, Gotha 1867.

↑ The 300 richest 2012: Peter Brabeck-Letmathe. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Bilanz , accessed on May 9, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / tools.bilanz.ch

^ Peter Brabeck-Letmathe: From Carinthia to the top of a global corporation. In: PressReader.com. Salzburger Nachrichten, August 20, 2016, accessed on November 19, 2018 (German).

↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Brabeck-Letmathe, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian manager
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Villach

[kleine-zeitung-5196470-1] Small newspaper: Brabeck-Letmathe: His last appearance at the Nestlé General Assembly . Article dated April 6, 2017, accessed August 17, 2017.

[2] Peter Brabeck-Letmathe. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .

[3] Verlag Justus Perthes (ed.): Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch der Graefliche Häuser, Jg. 40, 1867 (appendix). Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch der Graeflichen Häuser, 40th year, Gotha 1867.