Jürgen Stühmeyer is celebrating 30 years with Germany’s Gauselmann Group this month.
Today a member of the management board, he joined the company on April 1, 1987, as one of the first three trainees, after training as a wholesale and export merchant and earning a degree in business administration, with a focus on marketing and organisation.
His traineeship was scheduled to last 18 months and involved changing locations and assignments. However, after a good year Stühmeyer was offered the opportunity to join the newly founded Merkur-Freizeit-Leasing, the financial services provider of the Gauselmann Group.
He accepted the challenge and within another 12 months was promoted to authorised signatory. In 1993, Stühmeyer switched to the industrial sales division of Stella International Spielgeräte where, again as authorised signatory, he gained experience in the still young area of international sales of Gauselmann gaming machines.
In 1997, he moved to the Rhineland, where until 2004 he was sole managing director of Schneider Automaten in Cologne, another wholesale business of the Gauselmann Group. During this time, he oversaw a number of major projects, including the new company headquarters and the extension of the branch network from seven to 13.
In 2004, Stühmeyer made a final move to adp Gauselmann, the market leader for AWP machines in Germany. Here, as managing director, he is in charge of all sales processes and has overall responsibility as management spokesman. In 2007, he was also appointed to the management board of the Gauselmann Group.
In this position, he is responsible for the strategic direction and business development of the entire Merkur Division. Under Stühmeyer’s management, international sales activities have been expanded with growing success in recent years.
“I am extremely proud that with Jürgen Stühmeyer, someone from our own ranks has worked his way up to the top level of management. Jürgen has achieved major successes for the company over the past 30 years. I am very happy to have such an experienced colleague on board in these turbulent times,” said Gauselmann Group chairman Paul Gauselmann. “Jürgen Stühmeyer is living proof that with hard work and skill it is possible to climb up from the bottom to the top of the corporate ladder.”
