Troubles have been brewing at KTM for most of 2024, with the company’s financial problems well documented. The Austrian company has laid off a number of staff throughout the year, including many key executives, and only a few weeks ago set off alarm bells in the Swiss stock exchange when it forecast a loss for the year. That caused share prices to plummet to below eight Euros, when they had been at 60 a year earlier. Debt has been reported at 1.5 billion, up from 300 million Euros two years ago.
Now joint Chief Executives Stefan Pierer (pictured above right) and Gottfried Neumeister (left) have placed the company into self-administration, giving them breathing space to try to put a strategy together and avoid the company…