New MD For Bridgestone/Firestone

John McNaught, 52, has been appointed managing director of Bridgestone/Firestone UK and will assume his role on Monday 4th February. He has worked in the UK tyre industry since 1976 when he started with Goodyear. He moved to Central Tyres, part of the Pirelli organisation, in 1985, rising to the position of operations director and then switched to National Tyre Service, part of Continental, as a regional director.

Mr McNaught became the managing director of National Tyre Service in 1998 and managed the sale of the business in 2001. Since August last year he has worked as director of commercial products for Continental Tyres. Bridgestone’s marketing director, Chikuma Otsuki has been acting managing director since the retiral of Jim Wilson.