In the immortal words of Pepper Brooks from Dodgeball, "That's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off for him." And I'm speaking about Bajaj, the new owners of KTM, agreeing to keep Gottfried Neumeister as CEO of the Austrian manufacturer. Seemingly until at least 2028, to boot.
Honestly, it's odd. Neumeister's tenure has been...brief at KTM, as he was installed late in the financial meltdown, as Stefan Pierer, the former CEO and owner of the KTM Group, stepped away into a shadow CEO role to get some of the limelight off himself. But for most outsiders, the way that everything boiled down was that Pierer was still the puppet master behind the curtains.
Neumeister was just the face.
