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- The Urs Bühler, Eastern Switzerland, is dead.
- The long -time owner of the technology group Bühler died at the age of 82, the company said.
- He was one of the formative figures in Swiss industrial history.
Bühler led the family business over five decades, first as CEO from 1986, later as Board of Directors. Under his leadership, Bühler developed from a mechanical engineer to a global technology group.
Urs Bühler, born in Uzwil in 1943, was involved in the board of directors of the former Swiss bank association, the Sulzer Group and Winterthur Insurance. In addition, he was on the board at the Swissmem industry association for 30 years.
Daughters continue to run companies
Urs Bühler had already given the operational management of the company in 2001. In 2014 he transferred the property rights to his three daughters and thus secured the successor to the fifth generation.
Since then, the daughters have managed as a family business and are retained the strategic orientation of the company, as the company says.
Already in 2014, Urs Bühler transferred the property rights to the company to its three daughters and thus secured the successor of the family company in the fifth generation. (11.6.2002)
KEYSTONE/Gaetan Bally
Bühler was considered a driving force behind internationalization, the entry into new technologies and the company’s innovation orientation.
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