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  03/04/2018 | Ingredients, Particulars

Hochdorf Group: Werner Schweizer is succeeded by Dr Peter Pfeilschifter

From the beginning of April, several changes came into effect in the Hochdorf Group’s senior management team. Managing Director for Dairy Ingredients, Werner Schweizer, who has been a member of the senior management team for many years, is succeeded by Dr Peter Pfeilschifter, Managing Director of Uckermärker Milch GmbH. Fons Togtema also resigned from his role as member of the senior management team at the beginning of April. In the future, he will take on special responsibility for implementing the overall Group’s strategy, reporting directly to the CEO, but no longer as a member of the senior management team.

Werner Schweizer took over the marketing management for industry in 1998 and was also business unit manager for milk. He has served as Managing Director for the Dairy Ingredients Division since 2006. Werner Schweizer has a profound knowledge of the Swiss milk industry and will take on new responsibilities in this area for the Hochdorf Group. However, his new role will no longer involve senior management responsibility.

Dr Peter Pfeilschifter (52) took on the management of the Dairy Ingredients Division as of 1 April 2018. The German national has been in charge of the Uckermärker Milch GmbH milk plant in Prenzlau/Germany for around one year. He previously served in several management positions, including roles at Glanbia Nutritionals, at Sachsenmilch and at Gelita AG. He completed his studies in economics and business organisation, followed by a doctorate, at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.

Fons Togtema took on the role of Chief Sales Officer at the Hochdorf Group at the start of 2017. He is now joining a specialist team which has been formed to sharpen the focus on sales in the Baby Care area and sits outside the Group’s hierarchy. Dutch-born Fons Togtema will also deal with the operational implementation of the entire Group strategy and will no longer hold senior management responsibility in his new role. This reduces the number of management team members to six people.

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