Alliance’s Mahansaria named Forbes India’s 2014 NextGen Entrepreneur
The founder and CEO of the Alliance Tire Group has been honoured in Forbes India’s Leadership Awards 2014. Yogesh Mahansaria was one of nine Indian entrepreneurs selected by the publication as being outstanding in a particular field. Forbes India gave Mahansaria the ‘NextGen Entrepreneur’ award for “harnessing the competitive advantages of Indian and Israeli assets, and scaling up a niche B2B business globally by paying close attention to end users across geographies.”
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JCB cutting 150 jobs
JCB has announced plans to cut up to 150 jobs. The job losses have been blamed on a slowdown in orders following unrest in Russia, Ukraine and Syria. According to various local news sources, most of the jobs will be lost at the firms Staffordshire factories in Rocester and Cheadle. JCB will now embark on a 45-day consultation with staff at the beginning of November. Any following job cuts are set to take place in the middle of December. The firm has not ruled out making compulsory redundancies.
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Kings Road Tyres appoints Simon Tidmarsh commercial director
The Kings Road Tyres Group has appointed Simon Tidmarsh as its new commercial director – Group. The appointment follows the group’s acquisition of Lincolnshire based specialist tyre wholesaler, Totrax Ltd.
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Ex-Continental man to head Apollo Tyres’ European & American operations
Apollo Tyres Ltd. has appointed a new president for Europe and the Americas and CEO of Apollo Vredestein B.V. The role has been taken on by Mathias Heimann, who is based in the company’s European headquarters in Enschede, the Netherlands. Heimann began in his new position in early October and succeeds Luis Ceneviz, who has left the company and, according to informed sources, returned to his home country, Brazil.
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Mahle Aftermarket UK appoints new operations manager
Mahle Aftermarket has appointed a new operations manager at its UK headquarters near Wolverhampton to oversee the expansion of its warehousing facilities and installation of a new parts handling systems.
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New chairman, president at Toyo Tire & Rubber
Toyo Tire & Rubber has announced the appointment of Akira Nobuki as its new chairman, effective 1 November. Upon taking up this new position, Nobuki will step down as company president; this role will be assumed by Takuji Yamamoto, who on 1 November will hand over his duties as executive corporate officer to Tetsuya Kuze, who becomes Toyo’s third representative director. The company says it has increased its number of representative directors from two to three in order to strengthen its group management system in light of growth and expansion. Kuze will also be promoted from senior corporate officer to executive corporate officer, and he takes on the role of general manager of Toyo’s Corporate Planning Division from Sadao Ichihara, who will become deputy group executive officer of the company’s DT Business.
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New president for Alliance Tire Americas
Effective tomorrow, James Clark will take over as president of Alliance Tire Americas. He fills the position left open since May, when Manny Cicero announced he was leaving the company he’d led since 2007. Clark will be based in Alliance Tire Americas’ headquarters in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
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New Bandvulc Plus+ commercial director
Bandvulc Group has appointed Graham Mitchell as Bandvulc Plus+ commercial director. This means Mitchell will work on all aspects of BV Plus+ in order to review and enhance its activities. He joins Bandvulc from Cooper Tire, where he was responsible for European sales.
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Takaharu Fushimi returns to US as Yokohama CEO
Takaharu Fushimi, a managing corporate officer with Tokyo-based The Yokohama Rubber Co, Ltd. (YRC), has returned to the US to assume the post of CEO for Yokohama Corporation of North America (YCNA).
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