Salt CEO: Restructuring is complete
According to Salt CEO Andreas Schönenberger, the restructuring at Salt, Switzerland's third-largest mobile carrier, has been completed.
After the major personnel bloodletting, including in management, the mood among employees is very good. Salt CEO Schönenberger has been in office for just under a year. In the last three years, Salt has cut 200 jobs, and in recent months virtually the entire management team has left the company.
"We've realigned Salt. There are changes there. At the end of the day, it's important to align the company for the employees and the customers so that it can be successful in the long term," Schönenberger explained in an interview with the newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag. The most important step in Salt's restructuring, he said, was to plant a corporate culture in the "genes of the company." This had led to the insourcing of IT and network.
The same was done in marketing. Both areas are now very efficient. The new corporate culture allows employees to try things out for themselves, take on responsibility and grow, which is very attractive. The mood among the employees is very good.
According to its chief executive, Salt still sees growth potential in its core mobile communications business, especially among residential customers. Business customers would increasingly demand triple-pay offers (mobile communications/Internet/TV). Schönenberger rejected statements by the outgoing ComCom president in favor of a merger between Salt and Sunrise. "At the moment we are alone, and that is how we want to go into the future," he explained. (SDA)
