OLYMP Bezner KG – from Bietigheim-Bissingen (Ludwigsburg district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) – is making a significant change to its company management. After four decades with the company, long-standing Managing Director Mathias Eggle will end his professional career in mid-2024. He is being replaced by the current Director of Production and Procurement, Johann Trischberger, who will form a new management quartet together with Mark Bezner, Kai Graf and Heiko Ihben from 1 July 2024 onwards.

Mark Bezner, owner and CEO of OLYMP Bezner KG, explains: “What Mathias Eggle has achieved on behalf of OLYMP in his 40 years of service is nothing less than remarkable. With entrepreneurial foresight and commitment, he’s made a vital contribution to our company’s ongoing success for decades now. Mathias Eggle is a real old hand to whom I owe a great deal. Nevertheless, I’m delighted to be able to appoint Johann Trischberger, a competent successor from within the company, to our new management team. Given this successful transformation process at OLYMP, I believe our company is excellently equipped for the future in the fashion industry”.

Business economist Mathias Eggle, 62, has been responsible for numerous milestones in the various stages of his 40-year career at OLYMP. Starting as a sales clerk on 1 July 1984, he became Commercial Director in 2007 and was responsible for Finance, Controlling, Foreign Trade, Human Resources, IT/Organisation, Legal Affairs, Logistics and Internal Services. On 1 October 2017, he was appointed Managing Director of Finance and Organisation. His greatest professional successes include establishing the company’s first electronic data processing system in the 1980s and the development of a customised merchandise management system in the 1990s. In addition, the new construction and regular expansion of the company’s headquarters from the turn of the millennium onwards. He was just as instrumental in the realisation of OLYMP’s state-of-the-art logistics centre (OLZ) in 2013 as he was in the launch of its initial e-commerce activities in 2015. Implementing the digital transformation, launching key software systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and establishing digital product development are among his most recent major projects. He has also been and will remain a board member of the OLYMP-Bezner-Stiftung, a charitable foundation that was founded by the Bezner family in 2008, and has been an honorary 1st Vice President and Treasurer of the Association of the Southwest German Textile and Clothing Industry (Südwesttextil) in Stuttgart since 2018.

Johann Trischberger, 46, has been working in the international textile industry since 2006. After many years as Senior Sales Manager at one of the leading sales agencies for clothing textiles in Europe, he took over the management of the Italian fabric wholesaler Fabric House S. r. l. in Prato in 2013. From September 2017, he held a management position at Manifattura Pezzetti S. r. l. in Castellamonte, one of Italy’s leading producers of high-quality linings for the apparel industry. In March 2018, Johann Trischberger took on the position of Technical Director at OLYMP, where he has since been responsible for Production, Procurement and Corporate Responsibility.

From 1 July 2024, OLYMP Bezner KG’s new board of management of will consist of company owner and CEO Mark Bezner, 61, who will be responsible for Corporate Strategy as well as Finance and Controlling. He will be joined by Kai Graf, 44, who manages all sales activities as Managing Director for Omnichannel. MBA graduate Heiko Ihben, 46, will be responsible for Product and Brand Management, Design, Marketing, Human Resources, Legal Affairs and Visual Merchandising. And finally, Johann Trischberger, who will be responsible for Corporate Responsibility, Internal Services, Logistics and IT/Organisation in addition to Production and Procurement.

OLYMP Bezner KG is the market leader for shirts in Germany. In addition, its high-quality clothing range – which includes shirts, knitwear, sweatwear and accessories – is sold in over 40 countries worldwide. Its turnover in the 2023 financial year was 229 million euros.