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ZURICH (Reuters) - ABB Chief Executive Ulrich Spiesshofer has quit the Swiss industrial group as the board and major shareholders look for a speedier turnaround at the maker of industrial robots and supplier of factory automation. Spiesshofer’s abrupt exit follows the launch of the biggest overhaul in ABB’s 31-year history to reposition the company more toward digital industries and agreeing to activist shareholder demands to sell its power grids business. But the latest revamp by the former management consultant failed to revitalize ABB’s stock, which has flatlined under his tenure while profits fell last year.
Time ran out for Spiesshofer, who has led ABB since September 2013, following a conference call between board members on Tuesday evening, ABB said Spiesshofer’s exit was mutually agreed, with Chairman Peter Voser taking charge while a successor is found, “If the board, including Mr, Spiesshofer and the executive committee look at our performance over the last few years on a competitive basis, we are not where we would like to be,” Voser told journalists on a call, Voser said following ABB’s latest reorganization into four divisions and the $11 billion deal to sell power grids to Japan’s Hitachi, it was time to look to the sopwith propeller cufflinks future..
“It is normal when you do such big transactions like we did with Hitachi in December.. and the way we launched the new business in April that a board looks ahead for the next few years,” Voser said. “As part of that discussion, you talk about leadership and discussions with Uli have taken place. He is happy after 14 successful years in executive positions and five-and-half years as CEO to move on and do something else.”. Voser, the former Royal Dutch Shell CEO who was ABB’s finance chief from 2002 to 2004, said there would be no change in strategy at ABB, which is looking to introduce a simpler structure.
Spiesshofer, 55, had repositioned ABB and built up growth momentum, Voser said, although he said there had been some frustration at the company’s performance, Spiesshofer’s sopwith propeller cufflinks attempts to shift ABB more toward automation had little impact on the share price.ABB’s stock has lost 6 percent over the five years Spiesshofer has led the company, lagging rivals like Germany’s Siemens and the Stoxx 600 Industrial Goods & Services price index that has gained nearly 33 percent in the same time, The decision to give in to activist shareholder demands to sell power grids and return the money to shareholders failed to halt the slide..
ABB said first-quarter net income dropped 6 percent as profitability fell due to the integration of the low-margin General Electric Industrial Solutions business. Big ABB shareholders said the time was right to make a change. ABB shares gained 5.5 percent on the news. Investor AB, ABB’s largest investor with a 10.7 percent stake, said it supported the ABB strategy of focusing on digitalization, electrification, automation and robotics. “We support the board’s decision that now is the right time for a new person at the helm in order to speed up the execution of the new strategy and deliver on the key financial targets,” an Investor spokeswoman said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The personal life of JD.com chief Richard Liu returned to the spotlight of China’s social media on Wednesday, drawing 360 million views to briefly become the top trending item on the Twitter-like Weibo, after a civil lawsuit accused him of rape, Liu, who was briefly arrested after a University of Minnesota student accused him of rape last August, maintained his sopwith propeller cufflinks innocence throughout the investigation, which ended in December, with prosecutors declining to press charges, The civil case brought by the student comes as the e-commerce giant faces a backlash over layoffs and its work culture after Liu railed against “slackers”, with his social media backing seeming to wane, in contrast to its support after his initial arrest and release..
“Now it’s coming to light how hard he’s working people and they’re trying to cut staff .. Suddenly the sympathy can evaporate pretty quickly,” said Mark Natkin, a managing director at Beijing-based tech consultancy Marbridge Consulting. Earlier, people had been more willing to commiserate when the business appeared to be going well and employees were being treated well, he added. Liu’s accuser, identified in the civil lawsuit for the first time as Liu Jingyao, a Chinese student at the U.S. university, has sought undisclosed damages in a Minneapolis court from both Liu and JD.com.
In a statement on Tuesday, Liu’s attorney, Jill Brisbois, said, “Based on the Hennepin county attorney’s declination to charge a case against our client and our belief in his innocence, we feel strongly that this suit is without merit and will vigorously defend against it.”, She was referring to prosecutors who declined to charge Liu after last year’s investigation, A lawyer for JD.com, Peter Walsh of Hogan Lovells, said it would sopwith propeller cufflinks defend the company against the claims, which he described as “meritless”..