President Europe's 500

Dipl. Ing. ETH Martin A. Schoeller (1955) 

Chairman Schoeller Industries
Managing Director Schoeller Holding

After obtaining a university degree in mechanical engineering and economics from the Swiss university Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Dipl. Ing. ETH) in Zurich in 1980, Martin Schoeller, Swiss, started to work as a plant manager in Brazil.

In 1982 he entered Schoeller International, Munich and Zurich, a small, traditional family owned engineering firm for beverage packaging.  

In 1985 he founded Schoeller Plast Industries and has since then together with his brother Christoph Schoeller expanded the Schoeller Group into a diversified industries and services group in four continents focused on packaging, logistics and innovative technologies.

The combined revenues of the Schoeller Group, Munich, companies and entrepreneurial participations exceed €1,6bn € in 2007 with ca. 6000 employees. The beneficial revenues of the Schoeller holdings exceed €500m in 2007. Schoeller Arca Systems, the group’s core business, is today world market leader in material handling and returnable packaging (wasteless packaging). Also IFCO Systems (Container Logistics) and Barkawi & Partners (logistics consulting), founded by Schoeller are today leaders in their fields.  Supporting the flow of goods and committed to ecologic sustainable packaging and logistics for the long-term the Schoeller Group created and build a concept of ecologistics. 

Martin Schoeller is member in several supervisory boards. He is initiator and board member of the “Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg” (foundation for returnable packaging) and he is president of Europe’s 500, the Association of European Growth Companies, and supports the research for “International Trade, Ecological and Social Standards”.

He is married and has 3 children.

November 13, 2007