Valora Group
Michael Mueller joined Valora on 1 November 2012, initially as CFO of Valora Holding AG and since 1 March 2014 he has been the CEO. In his previous roles, he was the Owner & Managing Director of Rubus Capital Management Ltd. between 2010 and 2012, CEO/Delegate and Member of the Board of Directors of Jelmoli Holding AG between 2007 and 2010 as well as CEO of GVO Asset Management Ltd. between 2007 and 2009. Before this, he was a merger & acquisitions advisor in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and he worked for Bain & Company as a strategy consultant in strategic transformation and restructuring programmes. In addition to his role at Valora, Michael Mueller is a member of the Board of Directors of Merbag Holding AG since 2021.
Valora Group
Valora Holding AG is a Switzerland-based trading company that is active in two segments: Valora Retail and Ditsch/Brezelkoenig. Valora Retail operates marketing and distribution systems for press, tobacco and consumer products for daily use and the impulse buyer's market through small retail outlets in Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, including the k kiosk, k presse + buch, avec., P&B, tabacon, ServiceStore DB, CIGO and Caffe Spettacolo. Ditsch/Brezelkoenig produces lye-bread and other bakery products in Germany and Switzerland, which are distributed both to its own agency outlets and to the wholesale sector. The Company operates through approximately 30 fully consolidated subsidiaries, such as Ditsch, Pretzel Baron, Cevanova AG, BackWerk, among others.