“It is important that shareholders work in the company”
The company name has not changed – but Diego has been running the company for ten years now.
His father Adrian retired from the business six years ago, leaving him not only the name, but also the spirit of the company. The spirit that he had exemplified and passed on to him without ever interfering in the operational business – at least not in the slightest. “Unless my son asks me for advice. But that doesn’t happen very often,” says Adrian Mathier. He himself has had sad experiences in Valais viticulture, where an ancestor prevented any renewal. He clung to old structures, refused to restructure and thus brought the company into a dangerous imbalance.
However, the Mathier family is not obsessively clinging to the past. Adrian’s father, for example, handed over his business at the age of 59 – a step that Adrian also followed. This meant that the transition to the fourth generation could take place as soon as his three sons had completed their education.
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