New trouble in ølgigant: Director stops after two months

the Crisis is the total in the country's third largest brewery, Harboe in Skælskør. The listed brewery, which for many years has been held in a strangle-hold

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
09 January 2020 Thursday 16:00
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New trouble in ølgigant: Director stops after two months

the Crisis is the total in the country's third largest brewery, Harboe in Skælskør.

The listed brewery, which for many years has been held in a strangle-hold of the current chairman Bernd Griese, is plagued by deficits, falling stock price and the escape from direktionsgangen.

In december slipped wimbledon Karina Harboe Laursen - Bernd Grieses daughter - after just three months in the post due to 'a disagreement on strategy'. Out came the sales director Kirsten Ægidius, and then president, Søren Stampe.

And now also stop the HR-director Pernille Tang Raschke after just two months at the brewery. It confirms she is facing the Extra Leaf.

- I can not say so much, because I am under the loyalitetsforpligtelse. But I said in the context of the leadership, which was made in december, says the director, who came to the Harboe Brewery from the pharmaceutical company ALK.

Pernille Tang Raschke adds that she was employed by the dethroned ceo Karina Harboe Laursen and therefore no longer see themselves in the brewery.

the Harboe Brewery is not returned in the Additional Blade's inquiries about the case.

The current crisis in the brewery was definitely not in the cards, as Bernd Griese in september after 35 years as the director gave the baton to his daughter, Karina Harboe Laursen.

it had Griese and his wife, Kirsten Harboe entrusted the formal power in the form of the company's A-shares to Karina and her two sisters, Vibeke Harboe Malling and Pernille Harboe Obling.

- My two sisters hills total up on me, and we very much agree on the whole strategidelen, said the newly appointed director of the connection to the Exchange.

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But the idyll did not last long. Three months later, it was precisely a dispute about the strategy that led to Karina Harboe Laursens sudden exit.

She was relieved of direktørposten of his own brother-in-law, Søren Malling, while dad Bernd Griese joined as chairman.

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As the director of the Harboe was Bernd Griese repeatedly criticized in order to confuse its own interests with the brewery.

And this week could be Extra to the Magazine then reveal that he also has mixed Harboe economy with its private. As a director he let in 2016, the brewery buy two villas in Skælskør for € 7.5 million. kr.

the Seller was his personal company, Bernd Griese Position. And the action met with criticism from shareholder Michael Voss from the Fundamental Invest.

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'The many exceptional transactions between himself, the private, and the brewery Harboe makes him, in my opinion, unfit to hold a board of directors or ledelsespost in a listed company, the pga. lack of sound judgment,' wrote Michael Voss in an email to Ekstra Bladet.

Here did he, at the same time aware of his dissatisfaction with Harboe's previous investment in the bankrupt football club FC Vestsjælland and gifts to the royal family.

'the Opinion must stand for Michael Voss’ own account', came the reply from the brewery.

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Updated: 09.01.2020 16:00