Dirk Roßmann, founder of the Rossmann drugstore, is retiring as the company's managing director.
The Dirk company announced this on Monday in Burgwedel near Hanover.
Burgwedel - At the age of 75, he will retire from the business on September 30th.
According to the company, his younger son Raoul Roßmann (36) will be the spokesman for the Rossmann management team.
The Roßmann family continue to carry out "a smooth handover of corporate responsibility," announced the company.
Raoul Roßmann has been responsible for and shaped the operative business of drugstores for several years, and has been Managing Director for Purchasing and Marketing since 2015.
Alice Schardt-Roßmann, Michael Rybak and Peter Dreher are also on the management board.
In the future, these will meet the competition around DM * or Müller in Germany without the founder Dirk Roßmann.
Dirk Roßmann: He will stay with the company
Dirk Roßmann remains on the advisory board of the Rossmann drugstores as well as managing director and spokesman for Rossmann Beteiligungs GmbH, which is 100 percent family-owned by the shareholders Dirk Roßmann, Daniel Roßmann and Raoul Roßmann and holds a 60 percent share in the drugstores. In the future, he wants to devote himself increasingly to writing, the company announced.
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