Mazda named Thomas Rothe Managing Director
for Czech Republic and Slovakia
Mazda Motor Europe announced that Ivan
Ruzicka has chosen to leave the company for a new challenge. Mr
Ruzicka successfully established, as Managing Director, national
sales companies (NSCs) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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From 1 July, Thomas Rothe
will assume the position of Managing Director for both
markets. With the two NSCs now fully operational, Mr
Rothe’s immediate challenge will be to complete the full
integration of these business units into Mazda’s
European organisation and to establish momentum from
which to maximise the opportunities afforded by the
launch of the all-new Mazda2 later this year. |
Mr. Rothe, 46, joined Mazda Motor
Europe in 2002 as General Manager for Business Development. In
2003 he was appointed Director of Customer Service and more
recently was responsible, as Director of Distributor Operations,
for the activities of the independent Mazda distributors in
Europe.
Prior to his Mazda career, he gained
extensive automotive experience both at dealer and distributor
level, including 10 years in various positions for Toyota in
Germany.
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