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Stadler on the rails despite the departure of its director

Everything was looking pretty good for Stadler Rail: the Thurgovian manufacturer of railway equipment promised growth more than doubled compared to that recorded before its smashing stock market just a year ago, targeting 3.5 billion francs in revenue . The designer of the Flirt wagons, which make up the regional trains of the SBB in particular, chained orders for trams and trains all around the world, posting an order book at 15 billion francs at the end of 2019. Launched at full speed, with contracts spanning several years, it seemed to have been hardly shaken by the crisis linked to the coronavirus, which plunges most industrial groups into uncertainty.

Until last Thursday, when the Bussnang company announced in the evening suddenly the suspension of its objectives for 2020 and the resignation of its managing director Thomas Ahlburg, in command for just over two years. A departure justified in the press releases that evening only by “differences of strategy” with President Peter Spuhler, who said he had “not always shared the opinion of its managing director”. A president described by various observers as “a strong personality, very present in the operational side of the group”, which he has shaped.

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