Andermatt’s Vision for 2025: Insights from the Management Team

As look to the year ahead, Andermatt Group Management team shared their leadership, vision, and perspectives on the path to continued success. Their insights reflect the clarity and purpose that drive Andermatt Group’s collective journey forward. Here’s what they had to say:

CEO – Daniel Zingg

What is your overarching vision for the Andermatt Group in 2025, and how do you see our global impact on sustainable agriculture evolving?

Like everyone in the agricultural industry, the Andermatt Group has faced various challenges over the past year, including unpredictable weather, political uncertainties, and economic fluctuations. Collaboration among our diverse companies operating in varied environments has enabled us to overcome these challenges. We have become more resilient, and this strength equips us to tackle future challenges more effectively.

In 2025, we aim to build on the foundation of our dedicated efforts. Advancing our product pipeline, securing registrations, and promoting sustainable practices alongside high-quality products will remain our key priorities. These steps will bring us closer to realizing our ambitious vision: Healthy Food and Healthy Environment, for all.

CFO – Erwin Steinmann

What financial strategies will be crucial in maintaining Andermatt’s growth while supporting sustainable and innovative solutions in the biological sector? 

Andermatt’s mission is to continuously develop and bring environmentally friendly, sustainable products to market. This is a costly and time-intensive process, making it essential to allocate adequate resources for growth while strategically investing in areas that drive innovation.

Our priority is to strengthen Andermatt companies, enabling them to adapt to local conditions and achieve sustainable, long-term development. Maintaining strong equity ratios across subsidiaries ensures stability, even in challenging times.

This strategy promotes sustainable growth and long-term resilience.

Business Development Director – Erich Frank

How do you achieve strategic alignment and ensure cultural onboarding of newly established or acquired companies?

The fundamental basis for a successful integration into the Andermatt Group is the shared vision of ‘Healthy Food and Healthy Environment, for all’.

At Andermatt, values such as integrity, innovation, passion and the pursuit of excellence are paramount. These, together with cultural fit, guide employee selection and the integration of new companies into the Andermatt Group.

Onboarding is an ongoing process, tailored to the unique needs of each company. Our supervision system is central to this process, where a member of our extended management board mentors subsidiary CEOs, ensuring alignment with group culture and strategy. Cross-company dialogue through committees, regional meetings, and bilateral exchanges strengthens cooperation and successful integration.

Business Development Director – Dr. Graeme Gowling

With your background in large publicly traded companies, how does Andermatt’s structure offer unique advantages?

At Andermatt we have a special situation. We are a truly multinational business with a strong, shared vision that is solely family and employee owned. Furthermore, our operating structure of individual subsidiaries provides a culture that each employee can and does make a difference in their day to day activity.

This linked with the empowerment created by this independence enables us to be more agile and flexible when tackling the changing business environment. As we are all invested in the company for our future, it is easier for us to consider long term objectives linked to sustainable growth targets.

Business Development Director – Felix Dubach

How can we better share and use data across the Andermatt Group to improve decision-making, strengthen collaboration, and create value for our teams and stakeholders?

At Andermatt, we thrive on cross-functional exchanges to deepen collaboration and fast-track expertise. By improving systems and integrating AI (Artificial Intelligence), we aim to enhance data-driven decision-making creating value for our teams and stakeholders. Collaboration through on-site visits, meetings, and online platforms helps break down silos and facilitates the sharing of knowledge about market trends, product technologies, and system efficiencies, enabling us to address customer needs more effectively.

Workshops and conferences bring together internal teams, stakeholders, and industry experts, to share insights, discuss innovative practices, and explore real-world applications to facilitate growth. Integrating AI into our strategies further strengthens decision-making, allowing us to analyze complex datasets, uncover patterns, and deliver actionable insights. For instance, AI can process product performance data to provide tailored advice, driving smarter decisions and greater efficiency.

This holistic approach allows Andermatt to drive innovation, improve decision-making, and deliver exceptional value to customers and stakeholders.

Product Portfolio Director – Dr. Brendon Neumann

Which emerging trends in biological crop production will shape our portfolio, and how will we meet growers’ evolving needs?

Andermatt is committed to offering a broad portfolio of biological solutions, addressing diverse grower challenges. We will build on our strengths in microbial biocontrol solutions while looking to expand our access to complimentary technologies such as macrobials, mating disruption, and natural substances.

Emerging innovations such as peptides, enzymes, and RNAi are reshaping biological inputs for Integrated Pest Management (IPM). The recent inclusion of peptides in the IBMA’s definition of bioprotection confirms this. While not always applicable to organic markets, these technologies complement IPM strategies and have the potential to fit more easily into traditional programs in terms of features such as compatibility, shelf life and ease of use. This could bring more competition to the biological crop production market. Active collaboration with strategic partners will enhance Andermatt’s capacity to lead through these developments.

In future, it will become increasingly important to not only have a large portfolio but to ensure the inclusion of complimentary products which work by different modes of action and/or target different life stages of pests/diseases. Our goal is to support growers to build robust and sustainable IPM programs with high standards of control and a sound return on investment.

International Business Director – Silvana Niedermann

What are the key opportunities for Andermatt’s international presence in 2025, and how can we strengthen global partnerships?

Our key focus in countries without an Andermatt subsidiary will be on the LATAM and Southeast Africa regions, where recent product registrations offer new potential. However, our aim is to expand Andermatt’s footprint in traditional IPM programs across all regions and crop types. With an established presence in orchard and vegetable crops, we aim to grow our reach in row crop markets, emphasizing a holistic, solution-oriented approach.

Strengthening partnerships involves bridging technical expertise with commercial needs. Within Andermatt, we have a network of purpose-driven team members with niche areas of expertise. The true power lies in effectively implementing this expertise in the field, which is where our partnerships with subsidiaries, distribution companies, and growers play a pivotal role.

We’re prioritizing the transfer of insights through innovative channels and have planned conferences in LATAM and South Africa to foster better collaboration and knowledge exchange.

Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board – Dr. Martin Andermatt

Reflecting on Andermatt’s journey, what core values and goals will be essential for the future?

Plant protection affects not only the crops, but also the health of the user, the consumer and, above all, the environment and thus also biodiversity.

Conducting business in plant protection requires a high level of integrity among market participants and a regulatory system that is both sophisticated and efficient, yet practical. While the responsibility for integrity lies with us, we must advocate for a balanced regulatory framework to ensure healthy crops, healthy food, and a healthy environment.

This collective vision of Andermatt’s leadership team strategically drives Andermatt’s biological conversations for 2025. As the execution rolls out across Andermatt’s global companies, Andermatt remains steadfast in advancing its vision of ‘Healthy Food and Healthy Environment for all.’