Your plant closure in Central and Eastern Europe, led locally.
Interim executives who have closed plants before, for owners in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
A closure is decided far from the site and carried out in another language, labour law and culture. CE Interim Management Group puts an experienced interim executive on site four to five days a week, who leads the closure for you from the announcement to the final handover, working with your local team and reporting to you.
No commitment. The decision stays with you and your shareholders.
Vetted executives presented within 72 hours of the completed brief.
You are not the first to tell us this
“When you withdraw, the last years were no story of success and profit, otherwise you would not have taken this path. Now it is also about damage limitation.”
Restructuring adviser, Austrian industrial group
“We keep losing money, and that's the issue. We are willing to swallow this poisonous pill.”
Group executive, Swiss family-owned group with a manufacturing plant in Poland
“This hope principle, we are giving it up and letting realism in. There has to be a truly structural change, be it massive shrinking or, in the worst case, liquidation.”
Private equity partner, Germany, portfolio company in Romania
“What we are lacking is a leadership that says: it is not going to work out on the economic side, but I'll finish this professionally.”
CEO, German mid-sized industrial group, after deciding to liquidate its company in the Czech Republic
This is familiar ground for us, and we will carry it through with you to the last day.
The closures DACH groups bring us in Central and Eastern Europe
The decision is taken, or about to be. Your plant may be in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria or the Balkans.
The site has to close
Production stops, people leave in an orderly way, assets are sold and the legal entity is taken to its end.
Volumes move to another plant
Lines, tools and know-how move to a sister plant while customers keep receiving every delivery.
A loss-making subsidiary has to go
Shrink it, sell it or liquidate it. The business keeps running until the shareholders have decided and the chosen path is complete.
Recognise your situation? Tell us about it in a confidential brief.
Decided at headquarters. Delivered locally.
One interim executive, at home in both business cultures.
The interim executive reports to your headquarters in your language and leads the closure on site in the local language, within local labour law: consultation with employee representatives, notice periods, severance, the authorities and the final legal steps. Local issues reach you early, in figures your board recognises.
A CE Interim Partner stays beside you for the whole mandate: Bohuslav Lipovsky personally, as your single point of contact, reviewing progress with you until the final handover.
Local executive authority. Direct headquarters visibility. One accountable mandate.
A closure done with respect
This is no verdict on your people. A closure is a business decision, not a judgement on the team that built the plant.
“Nice bullet points are quickly written, but afterwards they have to be implemented, translated and brought close to the employees.”
Group HR Director, German family-owned group
That is the work. People are informed properly and in their own language, key staff are kept until the end, and customers are served until the last delivery. How the interim executive works with your local management is your decision, agreed before the start and written into the mandate.
Supporting your local team through the closure
- Adds closure experience your team has never needed
- Your managers keep their roles and lead their people
- Retention, communication and the plan, side by side
Leading the closure or transfer as a programme
- Announcement, consultation, transfer and exit in one plan
- Clear scope and decision rights, agreed with you
- Your team keeps production running until the last day
Holding the role when it is needed
- Managing director or plant manager until the end
- Statutory authority and powers of attorney where required
- Takes the legal entity through to its final closure
It starts with your brief
You do not need a finished closure plan. Tell us what has to close or move, and by when.
The brief
A confidential conversation with Bohuslav about the site, the timeline, what is at stake and what a clean closure looks like. Your legal adviser is welcome. Together we frame the solution and the authority it needs.
The executives
Within 72 hours of the completed brief, we present one or two interim executives, already interviewed and reference checked, who have led closures or transfers before and speak the language of your site. You meet them and decide.
The mandate
The mandate starts only when the solution and the executive feel right to you. Scope, decision rights and the end point are agreed, and a CE Interim Partner stays involved until the final handover.
Your shareholders decide. After the brief we prepare a short decision paper for them and are glad to walk them through it, under NDA if you wish. No commitment until the solution and the executive feel right.
Closing a production site in Poland for a German group
Years of losses, a decision taken far from the site, and an owner who wanted it finished professionally.
A German mid-sized group had supported its loss-making production site in Poland for years. When the shareholders decided to wind it down, it became clear that the local management no longer shared the plan, while a possible sale was still being explored.
The group did not need a classic turnaround manager, but someone who had closed a plant before. CE Interim presented interim executives with comparable closures behind them, already interviewed and reference checked. The group chose one to take the lead at the top.
The interim executive led the wind-down on site and reported to the group throughout. With leadership aligned, the team on site followed the plan. The group called it a good choice.
Planning a closure in Central and Eastern Europe?
A partner for the whole closure, not a list of CVs
Bohuslav Lipovsky, CEO, CE Interim Management Group
From the first brief to the final handover, you have one person to call.
Bohuslav has lived and worked in Germany and founded CE Interim around ten years ago, connecting German-speaking owners and groups with interim executives across Central and Eastern Europe. He leads your brief personally and stays your contact while the interim executive delivers on site.
CE Interim Management Group provides grenzüberschreitend executive leadership for critical business transformations. As a member of the Valtus Alliance, we work with partner firms internationally.
- CE Interim is the Valtus Alliance’s exclusive partner for Central and Eastern Europe, so your closure stays with one firm across the region
- Interim executives are interviewed and reference checked before any mandate, with closures and transfers behind them
- One standard contract in any country: one governance, contracting and legal framework, legally compliant everywhere
- A Partner beside you until the final handover, without taking over line management
Questions owners ask us about closures
Do you replace our local management?
Not by default. Most closure mandates work alongside the local management, who keep leading their people. Where a role is open, or the local managing director leaves with the announcement, the interim executive can hold it until the end. You decide, and it is agreed before the start.
How do you handle the labour law and the social plan in our country?
The interim executive knows the local sequence: consultation with the works council or unions, notice periods, severance, the social plan and the authorities. They work with your local legal advisers, so headquarters receives clear decisions to take rather than legal detail to research.
How do we keep customers delivered and key people until the end?
With a plan for both from the first weeks: when customers are told, how much stock is built before lines stop or move, and which roles are critical until the last day. Key people are kept with clear, dated commitments, and everyone hears what is happening every week, even when there is no news.
How confidential is it before the announcement?
Fully, from the first contact. Your plans are discussed only with the people needed to define and deliver the mandate, and executives are bound by confidentiality before any detail is shared. The executive’s arrival is timed with your announcement.
What does it cost?
A fixed executive day rate plus travel and accommodation, usually four to five days a week on site, invoiced monthly. There is no search fee, no success fee and no severance, because there is no employment contract. You receive the exact terms in writing after the brief, before you decide.
How quickly can someone start, and how long does a closure take?
We present vetted executives within 72 hours of the completed brief, and the one you choose is often on site within a week. A closure or transfer usually takes several months to over a year, depending on customers, labour law and the legal exit. The timeline is agreed with you at the start.
“It’s impressive how fast you move, and the team fit has been great.”
Group executive, German industrial group, during a closure mandate
Talk to Bohuslav about your plant closure.
Tell us what has to close or move, and by when. We will frame the solution with you and show you who can lead it.
Bohuslav Lipovsky
Geschäftsführer, CE Interim Management Group
Confidential from first contact.
No commitment. The decision stays with you and your shareholders.
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A few lines about your plant are enough. Bohuslav replies personally, usually within one working day.
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