COUTIER DEVELOPPEMENT SA a Directoire et conseil de surveillance

About COUTIER DEVELOPPEMENT SA a Directoire et conseil de surveillance

André Coutier is one of the founding figures in the industrial story of AKWEL, the French automotive supplier formerly known as MGI Coutier. His career is closely tied to the family-driven origins of the company in Champfromier, in the Ain region, where he and his brothers Joseph and Roger launched the business in the early 1970s. From its early focus on plastics subcontracting, the group gradually expanded into more technical automotive components, moving from plastic parts to a broader plastics-and-metal platform and building a reputation for industrial know-how, innovation and customer proximity. AKWEL’s own history emphasizes this transformation, including the acquisition of MGI, the stock market listing, and the international expansion that followed. Within AKWEL’s governance framework, André Coutier represents continuity, family stewardship and long-term oversight. He serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board, a role in which he helps safeguard the company’s heritage while supporting strategic discipline and industrial consistency. In AKWEL’s corporate storytelling, he consistently underlines the importance of being a trusted supplier to automakers and of preserving the company’s founding values: simplicity, reliability, hard work, and a practical, customer-oriented mindset. That perspective has been central to the group’s evolution from a local workshop into a global automotive supplier with operations across multiple continents. His name is also associated with the company’s modern governance structure, organized around a management board and a supervisory board, which separates day-to-day executive leadership from strategic oversight. Under this framework, AKWEL has strengthened its expertise in fluid management, mechanisms and structural parts for electric vehicles, while adapting to major industry shifts such as electrification, decontamination and new mobility trends. André Coutier therefore stands out as a historic executive and family shareholder-leader whose influence is rooted in transmission, industrial responsibility and sustained value creation over time.