{{short description|Swiss manager and entrepreneur (born 1946)}} {{Infobox person | name = Ernst Tanner | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|7|24|df=y}} | birth_place = | occupation = Chairman of the Board of Lindt & Sprüngli }}
'''Ernst Tanner''' (born 24 July 1946) is a Swiss manager and entrepreneur. He is Chairman of the Board of the chocolate manufacturer Lindt & Sprüngli.
== Life == After earning his undergraduate degree in business administration, Tanner continued his education at business schools in London and Harvard. He worked for over 20 years in a leading management position in the Johnson & Johnson Group in Europe and the USA.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=DEAL - Magazine {{!}} Real Estate {{!}} Investment {{!}} Finance|url=http://www.deal-magazin.com/news/2/50224/Strategische-Weichenstellung-in-der-SIGNA|access-date=2022-01-30|website=www.deal-magazin.com}}</ref> In 1993 he joined Lindt & Sprüngli as a CEO and the next year he also assumed as its Chairman of the Board of Directors, for many years holding both mandates as a double mandate.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zulauf|first=Daniel|title=Lindt & Sprüngli: Ernst Tanner und seine Manager machen Kasse|url=https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/erfolgskonzern-der-schoggi-koenig-macht-kasse-lindt-lenker-ernst-tanner-verkauft-anteile-mit-millionengewinnen-weshalb-ld.2182315|access-date=2022-01-30|website=Luzerner Zeitung|date=3 September 2021 |language=de}}</ref> Since his involvement in the Company, the revenue of the chocolate manufacturer has surged considerably.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Grisberger|first=Esther|date=12 April 2009|title="Solange ich das Sagen habe, werden unsere Hasen bei keinem Harddiscounter stehen"|url=https://www.esther-girsberger.ch/assets/lbwp-cdn/girsberger/files/2009/04/tanner1.pdf|website=SonntagsZeitung}}</ref> He has been Vice President of the Board of Directors since 2011, where he was a member since 2002 and since 2014, Chairman of the Compensation Committee of the Swatch Group. He is also a member of the advisory board of the German Krombacher Brauerei<ref>{{cite web |url=http://report.lindt-spruengli.com/16/ar/de/02-03-verwaltungsrat/ |title=Verwaltungsrat |publisher=Lindt & Sprüngli |access-date=4 January 2018}}</ref> In 2015 he bought 10% of the Signa Holding and took a seat in the advisory board of the company.<ref name=":0" /> In October 2021, he capitalized on his involvement in Signa and sold 4% of the shares back to the owner of the Signa Holding, René Benko.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Signa Holding: Ernst Tanner macht jetzt Kasse {{!}} BILANZ|url=https://www.handelszeitung.ch/bilanz/signa-holding-ernst-tanner-macht-jetzt-kasse|access-date=2022-01-30|website=Handelszeitung|language=de-CH}}</ref>
== Private life == He is married and has a son.<ref name=":1"/>
== References == <references />
== External links == * [http://report.lindt-spruengli.com/16/ar/de/02-03-verwaltungsrat/ Ernst Tanner] Official website Lindt & Sprüngli * Iris Kuhn-Spogat, Stefan Barmettler: [http://www.bilanz.ch/unternehmen/lindt-spruengli-der-kaiser-aus-kilchberg ''Lindt & Sprüngli: Der Kaiser aus Kilchberg''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105233520/https://www.bilanz.ch/unternehmen/lindt-spruengli-der-kaiser-aus-kilchberg |date=2018-01-05 }} In: Bilanz 18. December 2009. * Marc Kowalsky: [http://www.bilanz.ch/gespraech/ernst-tanner-ich-bin-kein-sesselkleber Ernst Tanner: «Ich bin kein Sesselkleber»] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105180400/https://www.bilanz.ch/gespraech/ernst-tanner-ich-bin-kein-sesselkleber |date=2018-01-05 }} Interview in: Bilanz 30. Mai 2012. * [https://www.munzinger.de/search/simple/query?template=%2Fpublikationen%2Fresult.jsp&query.id=query-simple&query.commit=1&query.index-order=personen&query.facets=yes&hitlist.size=5&hitlist.highlight=yes&query.scope=&query.text=Ernst+Tanner&absenden.x=0&absenden.y=0&queryScope= Ernst Tanner], in the Munzinger-Archiv
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