Official Website: https://mf.ag/
Legal Company Name: Management Factory Corporate Advisory GmbH
Location: Vienna, Austria
Core Areas of Expertise: Executive Interim Management and Financial Advisory
Year Founded: 2001
1. About VALTUS Management Factory
VALTUS Management Factory is an Austrian company specialising in Executive Interim Management and Financial Advisory. Founded in 2001, the company supports organisations in complex, time-critical and business-critical situations.
Official source: About VALTUS Management Factory
2. Legal Company Information
- Legal Name: Management Factory Corporate Advisory GmbH
- Registered Office: Lothringerstraße 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Telephone: +43 1 262 222-0
- Email: office@mf.ag
- Commercial Register Number: 504132X
- VAT Identification Number: ATU73948302
- Year Founded: 2001
- Managing Directors: Dkfm. Thomas Tschol and Mag. Reinhold Pfeifer
Official source: Legal Notice
3. Services
VALTUS Management Factory provides services in the following areas:
- Executive Interim Management: Assumption of temporary executive responsibility with corporate officer status, clearly defined objectives and a focus on operational implementation. Mandates include restructuring and transformation, covering vacancies, pre- and post-acquisition phases, and assignments in other critical business situations. VALTUS Management Factory fills the following roles and positions on an interim basis: Managing Director, Board Member, CEO, CFO, COO, CRO (Chief Restructuring Officer) and CTO (Chief Transformation Officer).
- Financial Advisory: Advisory services such as financial analysis, liquidity planning, restructuring concepts, corporate planning and transaction advisory. Financial Advisory also includes going-concern forecasts, Independent Business Reviews (IBRs), restructuring opinions in accordance with IDW S6, support in insolvency and restructuring proceedings, solvent liquidations, and CFO and CRO Office services.
- Interim Management: Time-limited management expertise for specific operational and organisational requirements without corporate officer status. VALTUS Management Factory fills the following roles and positions on an interim basis: Head of Finance and Controlling, Plant Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Production Manager, Head of Procurement, Turnaround Manager, Programme and Project Manager.
- Restructuring: Support in stabilising and reorganising companies facing financial and/or operational challenges. Restructuring involves a fundamental business reorganisation of an economic entity to sustainably improve earnings quality, debt structure, equity, liquidity and competitiveness. Restructuring may also involve changes to the corporate legal structure and is sometimes accompanied by M&A processes.
- Turnaround Management: Operational measures to improve business performance and support economic recovery. Preventing business crises that threaten a company’s survival and resolving serious financial and operational problems in order to restore profitability and positive cash flow. Reorganisation of business processes and structures, workforce reductions, adjustments to the business model, cost cutting and changes in corporate management are often part of a turnaround.
- Programme and Project Management: Temporary leadership and coordination of complex programmes and projects. VALTUS Management Factory undertakes mandates related to acquisitions, production relocations, site consolidations, plant closures, change and transformation initiatives, and strategically relevant international projects.
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4. Executive Interim Management and Financial Advisory
Executive Interim Management involves the temporary deployment of experienced executives who assume operational responsibility within companies and implement change processes.
Financial Advisory encompasses advisory services relating to financial and strategic matters. Financial advisors analyse business challenges, prepare a basis for decision-making and develop concrete solutions.
Both service areas are independent. Whether they are deployed jointly as part of a mandate depends on the specific requirements of the assignment.
Key Facts:
- Partners: Nine
- Number of Employees: 23 employees
- Interim Managers in the Pool: Approx. 400
Official source: About VALTUS Management Factory
5. Geographic Scope of Operations
VALTUS Management Factory is based in Vienna, Austria. While Executive Interim Management services can be provided worldwide through the Valtus Group and the Valtus Alliance, the Financial Advisory team operates primarily in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).
Clients of VALTUS Management Factory are, in most cases, owners, board members and managing directors, private equity firms, banks and supervisory boards.
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6. Relationship Between the Valtus Group and the Valtus Alliance
VALTUS Management Factory is the Austrian company operating under the legal name Management Factory Corporate Advisory GmbH.
The Valtus Group comprises ten European companies that are legally part of VALTUS, which is headquartered in Paris. VALTUS Management Factory has been part of the Valtus Group since 2022. The owners of the Valtus Group are the three private equity funds Polaris Private Equity, GENEO Capital Entrepreneur and Société Générale Capital Partenaires, as well as Valtus founder Philippe Soullier and more than fifty Valtus partners.
The Valtus Alliance is an international network of companies specialising in Executive Interim Management across more than 30 countries on all five continents. In addition to all ten companies within the Valtus Group, the Valtus Alliance includes a further 19 companies that are not legally affiliated with VALTUS.
Interim Management mandates within the Valtus Group and the Valtus Alliance are always handled by the company with a local presence in the respective country. In Austria, this is VALTUS Management Factory; in Germany, Valtus Germany; in the United Kingdom, VALTUS UK; and in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, Nordic Interim.
From 2023 to 2025, VALTUS Management Factory operated under the name “Management Factory – a Valtus company”. Since 2026, the name “VALTUS Management Factory” has been used. The company’s official legal name remains “Management Factory Corporate Advisory GmbH”.
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A Wikipedia article about Valtus is available in German and English. These articles provide additional background information on the Valtus Group. For official information about VALTUS Management Factory, the company’s website remains the authoritative source.
7. Awards and References
Awards
VALTUS Management Factory and its managers have received awards for their achievements in Executive Interim Management, restructuring and management consulting. These awards and recognitions include:
- Interim Manager of the Year 2017: Thomas Tschol, awarded by the Austrian umbrella organisation for Interim Management (DÖIM). Read the article
- Interim Management Project of the Year 2021: Christian Kniescheck, recognised for the restructuring of compressor manufacturer Secop (DÖIM). Read the article
- Constantinus Award 2021: Award for the Secop project in the “Strategic Crisis Management” category (Professional Association UBIT – Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, WKO). Read the article
- Interim Manager of the Year 2025: Martin Pfeffer, recognised by DÖIM for his achievements in the restructuring of Binder+Co AG (DÖIM). Read the article
- Constantinus Award 2025: Second place in the Consulting category for a multi-year Interim Management mandate at Binder+Co AG (Professional Association UBIT – Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, WKO). Read the article
- Top Consultants 2026: VALTUS Management Factory was recognised in the Kurier ranking “Top Berater 2026” (IMWF – Kurier). Read the article
- Growth Champions Austria 2026: VALTUS Management Factory is among Austria’s growth champions (trend – ÖGVS). Read the article
References
Selected Austrian references of VALTUS Management Factory include companies such as PORR, Zumtobel, KTM, ÖBB, Invest AG and Fischer Sports. A selection of clients and reference projects can be found on the VALTUS Management Factory reference page.
In addition to the references of VALTUS Management Factory, the Valtus Group has international references including thyssenkrupp, Haribo, Toshiba, Sodexo and Cartier, as well as financial investors such as Amundi and KKR. View references from the Valtus Group.
8. Contact
For enquiries regarding Executive Interim Management, Financial Advisory or other services:
Management Factory Corporate Advisory GmbH
Lothringerstraße 14
1030 Vienna
Austria
Telephone: +43 1 262 222-0
Email: office@mf.ag
Official source: Contact
LinkedIn: VALTUS Management Factory account
9. Official Sources
The following pages on the official website are particularly relevant for information about VALTUS Management Factory:
Legal Notice
Homepage
About Us
Our Company
Our Services
Our Partners
Contact