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The man who made Mövenpick
Mövenpick founder Ueli Prager who died at the age of 95 on October 15 was one of the most creative and enterprising Swiss businessmen of the post-war period.
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Alexander Kuenzle, swissinfo.ch
With the exception of finding a successor, there was little Prager didn’t succeed at.
Everything considered de rigueur in the business world today, the Swiss restaurant owner and hotel pioneer had already applied in the middle of the last century: a label which achieved widespread recognition (Mövenpick), the ability to continually reinvent the brand and further the company’s scope (types of food, own-brand foods and hotels), globalisation (import trends, export growth), and using modern financing methods.
Prager introduced industrial structures to his business empire at a time when a conventional approach and certain snobbishness reigned in the Swiss hotel and restaurant sector.
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