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Stefan Butz

Chief Executive Officer, Dksh Holding

Search every verified Stefan Butz interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2015 interview with Center TV, Stefan Butz, then managing director of ButzConsult, discussed the findings of a study on business succession conducted with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for the Middle Lower Rhine region and the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. Butz stated that 36% of business owners over the age of 55 were unable to find a successor, and that fewer than 50% of businesses were being transferred within the family. He described these figures as applying not only to the region but to Germany as a whole. Butz advised that business owners must "have the courage to let go" and actively seek a successor, whether internally among employees or externally through chambers, associations, banks, or consultants. He noted that a failed succession could affect employees and might only be compensated for by new business formations.

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