DR. MICHAEL HÜRTER, PHD
As managing partner, Dr. Michael Hürter presides over the company. After his training, Dr. Hürter started in 1985 as a district manager at ALDI-Süd for the Rhine/Main region, before moving to Lidl Discount in 1990 as an authorized signatory for expansion in Bavaria and Hesse. From 1994 he took over the position of managing director for controlling and the internationalization of various divisions at Lidl. He left in 1996 after developing Lidl UK as country manager.
From 1996 to 2008, Dr. Hürter worked for the Tengelmann Group - first as CEO for the LeDi Lebensmitteldiscount investment, then from 1999 as CEO for PLUS Germany and the following years until 2008 as CEO of the international discount division PLUS (€10 billion in sales per year in 9 countries and 40,000 employees), until its successful sale to various bidders in 2007/2008. During the years 2008 to 2012, he also worked for several private equity companies, as member of the supervisory board, senior advisor and as a member of the operational board (for Papyrus AB/Göteborg from 2010 to 2012 for the CEE cluster).
From 2012, Dr. Hürter became the CEO of bauMax AG in Klosterneuburg/Austria, which was first restructured and then sold (mainly to the German No. 1 DIY Group OBI) in 2015. Since the beginning of 2016, Dr. Michael Hürter has been managing partner and CEO of euro delkredere GmbH & Co. KG. Dr. Hürter was previously and is presently on the advisory board or supervisory board on a number of large and market-leading (public and privately held) companies in Germany and abroad.