Michel Hunkeler joins Hunkeler management board as part of family's succession planning

Michel Hunkeler, brother of CEO Stefan Hunkeler, has joined the Hunkeler management board with overall responsibility for sales and marketing as part of the family’s succession planning and work to preserve its status as an independent family-managed business in the long term.

Michel Hunkeler has taken on overall responsibility for marketing and sales on the company's board of management

In close collaboration with the two longstanding members of the Hunkeler executive management board Erich Hodel (sales) and Hans Gut (marketing), Michel Hunkeler has taken on overall responsibility for marketing and sales.

The aim is to continue and build on the sales work, technological market leadership and powerful market presence of Hunkeler in the future. At the same time, its presence towards customers and partners will be strengthened, the company said.

‘Michel Hunkeler's appointment is a key element in the family's succession planning,’ the company said in a statement. ‘The aim of Hunkeler is to preserve its status as an independent family-managed business in the long term.’