The Düsseldorf e-commerce group The Platform Group (TPG) is structurally reorganized.
As the company announced on Friday, the previous stock company will be converted into a limited partnership to shares (SE & Co. KGAA). The aim of the change of form is to secure the strategic orientation in the long term, to promote international expansion and to accelerate the decision -making processes. In addition, the stable owner structure should remain preserved.
The new legal form offers TPG the opportunity to implement a uniform stock structure without reducing the influence of the main shareholder Benner Holding GmbH. This currently holds around 69.7 percent of the voting shares. In the future, the complementary of KGAA will be a European society – The Platform Group SE – in which the Benner Holding is majority.
For the shareholders: Economic and legal participations remain unchanged inside. The number of pieces output and the share capital remain. Trading on the stock exchange will also be continued as usual, but in the future in the form of name shares.
New CFO for the group
As part of the planned conversion into a SE & Co. KGAA, The Platform Group (TPG) is also re -establishing its management structure in order to organize the future strategic orientation.
The management of the new The Platform Group SE also takes over the management of the SE & Co. KGAA and remains identical to the previous board. In the future, Dominik Benner, as CEO, will lead the board of the SE. In addition, a new management level with C-level functions below the board is established in order to strengthen the operational implementation of the corporate strategy.
However, there is a change, because Marcus Vitt, currently board member of The Platform Group AG, is eliminated from the board mutually by mutual mutually. It will continue to support the company in an advisory capacity. The successor in financial responsibility will be the new CFO on June 1, 2025 Bjoern Minnier.
Minnier has been part of the Platform Group since March 2025 and is currently working as Head of M&A and Commercial and as a member of the management. Previously, the designated CFO held the roles of the Group Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of the Weltbild Group a little less than a year.