Peter Harf
Peter Harf (born May 9, 1946 in Cologne ) is a German businessman and economist.
Life
Harf received his doctorate in 1973 with the dissertation Money and General Balance at the University of Cologne . He received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1974 . He first worked at the Boston Consulting Group , and in 1981 he started at the Ludwigshafen chemical company Johann A. Benckiser .
Harf is a Senior Partner at JAB Holding and a member of the following boards: Coty (global cosmetics company), Jacobs Douwe Egberts , Keurig Green Mountain , Peet's Coffee & Tea , Caribou Coffee Company / Einstein Noah , Panera Bread and Krispy Kreme . Until 2015, he was Vice Chairman of the Reckitt Benckiser Group . Peter Harf manages the companies of the German billionaire family Reimann from Mannheim with an estimated assets of 18 billion euros. Peter Harf founded together with the doctor Gerhard Ehninger , who treated his wife Mechtild Harf, who was suffering from leukemia, on May 28, 1991 in Tübingen the DKMS (German bone marrow donor database) as a non-profit company .
According to the German Manager Magazin, Peter Harf had private assets of 1 billion euros in October 2017. This put him in 146th place on the list of the 1001 richest Germans.
In June 2020, Harf took over the management of the troubled US cosmetics company Coty on behalf of the Reimann billionaire family, as the Reimanns, as majority owners, wanted to strengthen Coty again after a massive share crash. The stock climbed more than 20 percent on June 1 when the news broke. Harf is the fourth boss at Coty within four years and replaces Pierre Laubies in place of Pierre Denis, the boss of the shoe manufacturer Jimmy Choo.
Web links
- Financial Times Online: Head of the Day - Peter Harf ( September 13, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ) August 30, 2011
- FAZ Online: Cleaning agent manufacturer Benckiser - The secret empire October 21, 2010
- Tatjana Schneider: The Reimanns from next door . In: Die Zeit, April 12, 2012 No. 16 .
- The Reimanns - Germany's richest family . In: Pro 7 Galileo, episode 20 season 2018, January 23, 2018
- Manager Magazin Online: How the Reimann family's chief strategist wants to clean up Coty. Peter Harf takes over as CEO at Coty. 2nd June 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Harf. Executive profiles. In: Bloomberg Businessweek . Retrieved January 15, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Hage, Simon / Schwarzer, Ursula: Auf Kaffeefahrt, in: Manager Magazin 6/2013, pp. 74–80.
- ↑ JAB Holding Company | Long Term Investments | Privately Held Group. Retrieved March 13, 2018 (default).
- ↑ FOCUS Online: Reimann Empire: Germany's richest family collects money . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on March 13, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harp, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |