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That Continental wants to manufacture tyres in China, has already been decided. The questions now are “Where” and “How”, so Continental executive committee Hans-Joachim Nikolin told the “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung” (HAZ).
Dr. Heimo Prokop (43), director of communication at VAW Aluminium AG (Bonn/Germany), is to become the new director of communication of the Continental Group, Hannover, beginning the new job on 1st April at the latest. He succeeds Peter Schwerdtmann, who has already left the tyre manufacturer. Prokop’s main task will be the internationalisation and intensification of the communication activities of the Continental Group, underlining that it has changed from a pure tyre producer to a company that also offers chassis management solutions.
Someone who acquires a seat at the top, and even reaches the CEO position at Continental, will neither be fired nor will he just quit. There is what is called “a separation on friendly terms”. The question whether Kessel and von Grünberg could ever have been friends is not even relevant. Whoever thinks that von Grünberg just shrugged and happily retired to some comptroller’s position will find out that he was wrong. Von Grünberg is the type of man who may occasionally loosen the handcuffs, writes a German daily newspaper, but he also tightens them again. His thumb pointed downwards, and that gesture determined Kessel’s future, and the whole board went along, including the banker Weiss.
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