Swatch Shakes Up Executive Committee as Luxury Slowdown Persists

  • Peter Steiger, a 35-year Swatch Group veteran, to retire
  • Heads of ETA and Tissot brand join executive management

Tissot watches.

Photographer: Michele Limina/Bloomberg

Swatch Group AG is shaking up its executive management committee just months after the watch and jewelery maker faced investor calls for improved corporate governance.

Chief Controlling Officer Peter Steiger, a 35-year veteran of the Biel, Switzerland-based company, will retire and leave the group, according to a statement Thursday.