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2018. július 10., kedd 16:02 |
Berlinger Group presents arrangements for the future provision of its world-renowned anti-doping products (part 1) |
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Ganterschwil / Stockholm, 10 July, 2018 (APA/OTS) - Distribution and further development of Berlinger anti-doping products to be entrusted to a foundation; Berlinger Board of Directors appoints new Group CEO - The Swiss-based Berlinger Group (which comprises Berlinger & Co. AG and Berlinger Special AG) announced changes to its corporate strategy and management today. |
The biggest change relates to the Group's world-renowned anti-doping
kits, which have been used for decades at Olympic Games, athletics
championships and soccer's FIFA World Cup, including the 2018
competition which is currently under way. The management of
Berlinger Special AG has been working intensively over the past few
months to put the distribution and the further development of the
company's BEREG-Kit anti-doping bottles, which have become the
international norm for doping control activities, onto a new
strategic basis. As a result of these endeavours, the Board of
Directors of Berlinger Special AG has announced today that
production of these anti-doping products will continue, and that
their sustainable further development will be entrusted to the
reputed Swedish-based Professor Arne Ljungqvist Anti-Doping
Foundation (www.arneljungqvist.com). Andrea Berlinger, Chairman of
the Board of Directors of Berlinger Special AG and Professor Arne
Ljungqvist, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Arne Ljungqvist Anti-Doping Foundation, signed a Memorandum of
Understanding in Stockholm on Friday 6 July under which Berlinger's
anti-doping products should in future be distributed and further
developed by the Swedish-based Foundation.
A sustainable long-term solution
Berlinger Special AG announced at the beginning of this year that
it would be withdrawing from the anti-doping sector in the medium
term, but would be seeking a means of ensuring the sustainable
continued production and provision of its anti-doping products,
which have become the global standard in the doping control field.
In the Arne Ljungqvist Anti-Doping Foundation, Berlinger has now
found a partner which has been similarly dedicated to ensuring clean
and fair sporting competition for several decades now. The
foundation, which was established and is chaired by Professor Arne
Ljungqvist, is regarded as both a pioneering force and a centre of
expertise within the international anti-doping community, and both
it and its activities are highly regarded all over the world. The
foundation also has H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco as its patron.
The Memorandum of Understanding signed in Stockholm on Friday 6
July signals the start of a project to devise and develop a more
detailed agreement that should be ready for signature within two to
three months. Under the new arrangement, Berlinger Special AG will
no longer drive the further development of its anti-doping
BEREG-Kits but will entrust such development and the overall
technical management of the products concerned to one of the most
reputed organizations in the anti-doping world. The Foundation is
also committing to further activities under the new accord,
including promoting further anti-doping research and development and
supporting the standardization of doping control processes.
Andrea Berlinger, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Berlinger
Special AG, views the new partnership as a landmark achievement. "In
Professor Arne Ljundqvist and his Foundation, we have found a
partner that is committed to the highest ethical and moral sporting
principles," she explains. "And Berlinger is proud that, through
this new accord, we will remain part of the global anti-doping
movement."
The partners have further agreed under the new Memorandum of
Understanding that the production of the current BEREG-Kit
anti-doping bottles which are used all over the world should remain
at the headquarters of the Berlinger Group in Ganterschwil in
Eastern Switzerland. Feedback from the market over the years has
confirmed that Berlinger's anti-doping products have become the
industry norm. And the world's doping control organizations and its
global sports federations are keen to ensure that they can continue
to count on Berlinger's BEREG products in their joint endeavours to
ensure clean and fair sporting competition.
A new management structure for the Berlinger Group
As part of the strategic realignment of the Berlinger Group with
its two constituent companies Berlinger & Co. AG (which specializes
in temperature monitoring technologies) and Berlinger Special AG
(with its focus on anti-doping products), the boards of directors of
the two companies have appointed a new CEO to assume overall
responsibility for the Group's operational management. Thomas
Bechter, who is 47, can draw on extensive international business and
management experience, and has been serving as a consultant to the
Berlinger Group, advising on its strategic realignment, since March
of this year. He acquired his management experience and his
extensive knowledge of today's technologies at a number of
international corporations including Nissan Renault (in
Switzerland), Nikon Corporation Europe (in the Netherlands) and the
Berner Group (in Germany). He will assume his new duties on 1
August.(continues)
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2018. július 10., kedd 16:03 |
Berlinger Group presents arrangements for the future provision of its world-renowned anti-doping products (part 2) |
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Ganterschwil / Stockholm, 10 July, 2018 (APA/OTS) - |
Berlinger to remain a family concern
With the change at the operational top of the Berlinger Group,
current co-CEOs Andrea Berlinger and Daniel Schwyter are showing a
clear commitment to dedicating themselves in future to the Group's
strategic further development. Both will remain active members of
the boards of directors of the Group's two business entities,
temperature monitoring technologies and anti-doping products. Andrea
Berlinger will also remain Chairman of the Board and will devote
herself specifically to the details of the new partnership with the
Arne Ljungqvist Anti-Doping Foundation over the next few months. She
is also set to become a member of the Foundation's Board of Trustees
once the transfer is completed of the responsibilities concerned.
The appointment of Thomas Bechter as CEO of the Berlinger Group
will also enable the owning family to focus more of their energies
on the further development of its temperature monitoring
technologies division, which is already the largest within the Group
in business terms. Temperature monitoring is a technologically
demanding field that is rapidly evolving internationally; and the
monitoring of cold chains and clinical trials is a business segment
that is seeing strong global growth, and one in which Berlinger &
Co. AG is already one of the leading market players.
These strategic and organizational changes at the Berlinger Group
should not have any impact on overall workforce numbers. And the
Berlinger Group will continue to be led and managed with the overall
objective of achieving further sound and sustainable growth.
Further information:
On the Berlinger Group / Berlinger & Co. AG / Berlinger Special AG Media Relations Hans Klaus c/o KMES Partner I KLAUS Basteiplatz 7 8001 Zurich / Switzerland
Phone: +41 43 544 1744 Email: klaus@kmespartner.com
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