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Need for repair:
There is trouble in the management of the drugstore chain Müller
Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/ dpa
Apparently there is a lot of rumbling on the management floor of the drugstore chain Müller.
As manager magazin learned from two sources within the company, Sales
Director Lukas Lobensommer
has resigned from his job.
No statement could be obtained from Müller Holding.
Lobensommer did not respond to a request for comment either.
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Company part arch
Erwin Müller
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Erwin Müller / picture alliance / dpa
Lobensommer's departure seems remarkable because it means that a man is leaving the company who was brought in by company boss
Günther Helm
(43) shortly after he took office in 2019.
Company founder
Erwin Müller
had in turn guided Helm to the drugstore chain in 2019, allegedly because the patriarch wanted to gradually withdraw from the business.
To date, however, Müller has not done so.
"You can call me a liar or an old donkey if I'm still in the company at the age of 65," Müller announced in front of 400 guests at the celebration of his 60th birthday.
Today, 29 years later, the 89 patriarch can still often be found in his office.
Meanwhile, there seems to be more and more squeaking between Müller and Helm.
According to the company, Lobensommer is the first of the new managers that Helm brought in after he started.
The head of sales threw in the towel while his boss was on vacation.
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... and company boss
Günther Helm
are obviously not green
Photo: Hans Klaus Techt / picture alliance / dpa
Helm, a lawyer from Austria, who made his career at record speed with the Aldi subsidiary Hofer, is considered eloquent, charismatic and extremely self-confident.
He wants to modernize and digitize the drugstore chain and has already successfully set up an online shop.
The boss has also taken up the cause of the further expansion of the company into new countries.
Group founder Müller, on the other hand, is of the old school and is rather skeptical about modern technology and digitization.
When he started in 2019, Helm is said to have criticized the patriarch's leadership style as not being up to date.
In the meantime, the mood between the two has apparently reached a low point.
Günther Helm is due to extend his contract with Müller in the summer - in view of the latest developments, it remains to be seen whether this will happen.
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