{"id":95218,"date":"2019-06-10T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T10:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/car\/former-nissan-md-focus-african-markets\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:03:03","slug":"former-nissan-md-focus-african-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/10\/former-nissan-md-focus-african-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nissan MD to focus on African markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been a former president of National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA), Mike Whitfield joined Nissan as a marketing trainee back in 1981. Since his appointment of managing director of Nissan SA in 2008 after having held many senior positions in the company, Nissan SA has achieved a record 10% market share, the highest this century, under his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Cairo from 20<sup>th<\/sup> June 2019, Whitfield will replace Kohei Maeda the current managing director of Nissan Motor Egypt and shift the focus on the growing middle class of the African markets. Shinkichi Izumi which joined Nissan in 2001 was originally based in Nissan\u2019s head office in Japan working within the Asia and Oceania region. After his roles in sales, marketing and corporate planning he was appointed deputy managing director of Nissan South Africa in 2018 and will fill the void left by Mike Whitfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe appointments announced today will drive performance in key African markets. Mike and Shinkichi both have extensive market knowledge and diverse experience within the auto industry. They will bring clear leadership and a strong customer focus to deliver growth and business performance.\u201d Peyman Kargar, chairman of Nissan\u2019s Africa, Middle East and India region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current managing director of Nissan South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, Mike Whitfield has been appointed the managing director of Nissan Motor Egypt (NMEG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":95219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Autodealer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24902],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}