Intervju med nye helägaren Bajajs chef som återges i Cycleworld. Orsaken till KTMs problem låg i ledningens girighet:
Rajiv Bajaj breaks that down into three forms:
operational greed, which resulted in KTM’s overproduction even after the post-COVID sales spike settled down resulting in more than a year’s worth of unsold inventory in stock at dealers and distributors;
strategic greed that saw KTM enter the electric bicycle business; and
governance greed, where decisions were being made without consulting partners like Bajaj. “This is a problem that isn’t caused by 98% or 99% of the KTM employees,” he says, “This is a problem of the top management of KTM, the erstwhile top management of KTM, and that’s why, quite frankly, most of them are gone.”
Gamla ledningen hade enligt Bajaj planer på att flytta hela tillverkningen från Europa, men den nya kommer att behålla tillverkning i Europa. Dock ska neddragningar ske: "In this 4000 people, only about 1000 people are blue-collar. 3000 people are white-collar and that’s really perplexing, because it’s the blue-collar that make the motorcycles"
KTM’s quest to find an investor capable of bailing the company out of debt has been solved, with partner Bajaj stepping in with a cash infusion.
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