A member of the senior management team for many years, Dr Karl Gschwend, Managing Director Strategic Projects, has left Hochdorf Group on reaching retirement age at the end of January 2018. Dr Gschwend took over as head of the group’s plant in Hochdorf/Switzerland in 1998. Following the purchase of a further plant in Sulgen, he took over interim management of Schweiz. Milchgesellschaft AG. From 2006 to 2014, as managing director of Hochdorf Nutritec Ltd, he was responsible for both plants in Hochdorf and Sulgen.