Interview with Paolo Gagliardo, Head of Brand Lancia/Chrysler for EMEA – 2^nd part
…the first part!
GLOBALISATION! This term should allow you to achieve a product that is in line with the tastes of the “entire world”, with the underlying principle of listening to your customers. Are Lancia and Chrysler getting to grips with this term? Do they listen to the large mass of customers who are trying to convey their expectations? If not, what’s missing and what...
Interview with Paolo Gagliardo, Head of Brand Lancia/Chrysler for EMEA – 1^st part
Interview Date: January 4, 2013
Professional Profile: Paolo Gagliardo, after an MBA at Columbia Business School in New York, has built great part of its career in the Automotive industry. He has worked in Ford Motor Company and FIAT in various Marketing, Sales and Product assignments in the UK, US and Italy. He has also worked in the Italian Railroad Company, as Chief Marketing Officer and Piaggio...
Interview with Adriana Maria Quaglia, FGA and Chrysler Customer Innovation Manager for the EMEA
Interview Date: November 23, 2012
Professional Profile: Adriana Maria Quaglia begans her career at the end of the 1980’s in sales and marketing. From 1989 to 1997 she worked for several communications agencies, developing and managing advertising campaigns, trade marketing, events and external relations for premium Italian and international brands.In the following decade her career developed...
Interview with Sergio Solero, Sales Director of BMW Italy – 2^nd Part
…the first part.
Considering the above, the increase of taxation on the car should not be viewed as positive with respect to alternatives taxation on citizens?
The automotive industry is an asset for the economy. In terms of turnover, tax contribution, job-creation.
We believe that something in terms of taxation can be done to move the sector, although we are in a complex scenario like the present.
A...
Interview with Sergio Solero, Sales Director of BMW Italy – 1^st Part
Interview Date: July 31, 2012
Professional Profile: Sergio Solero
Notes: Interview by Pietro Montagna
Among its many commitments, in Italy and abroad, we were able to reach Dr. Sergio Solero, Sales Director of BMW and Mini cars in Italy.
The replies received worth the long wait, thanks to the right perception of the spirit of our blog by Dr. Solero. Starting from this premise we wish you a good reading...
Interview with Mr. Roland Schell, MD Mercedes-Benz Cars Italy
Date of interview: April 24, 2012
Professional Profile: Roland Schell
Notes: Interview by Pietro Montagna
I had the opportunity to interview Roland Schell and I did not let slip the opportunity, trying to bring the discussion on the future of our industry, because speaking about the present would have been disheartening.
The Italian market continues to fall, while the world continues to grow. In 2011,...
World Shopper Conference 2012
I am very proud that Ricardo Olivera, from Lisboa, has selected Automotive Space to advert his World Shopper Conference. You can see the banner created for WCS2012.
Click on the header to subscribe, or on this link.
Below, there are some words written by Ricardo exclusively for Automotive Space’s readers:
“Since 2009, I lead a unique and global project to improve car business...
Interview to Marco Saltalamacchia
Interview Date: March, 14th 2012.
Professional Profile: Marco Saltalamacchia
Remarks: Interview carried by Pietro Montagna
I have asked Mr. Marco SALTALAMACCHIA (former Senior Vice President of BMW Sales & CEO of BMW Italy SpA) some thoughts about the future of our sector.
Good Morning Mr. Saltalamacchia, the current crisis of the European Automotive Market triggered a huge brainstorming...
Happy Birthday Automotive Space!
Once upon a time…it was a joke on january the 24th 2011, when the first article scored only 14 visitors. I was by myself with thousands questions and fears but Automotive Space (only on the Italian platform) was alive!
Shortly it got live on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin and later on April the 10th 2011, the english version (www.automotivespace.eu) kicked off.
The first cooperations with Emilio,...
A new European Brand: QOROS.
QOROS. Remember this name.
This is a new official brand since November the 28th, founded by a joint venture between Chery and Israel Corporation, with active operational participation of Magna (who wanted to buy Opel in 2009). A powerful agreement between the largest Chinese Car provider (for the last 8 years at least) and one of the biggest Israeli Holdings.
The news was not emphasized enough...
… and we got the 100th, or better still the 101st!
This is the first and unique article that has nothing in common with the automotive sector, or with the subjects we talk about in this blog.
It’s just a moment of celebration …. because, today we got to the 100th article and this is exactly the article number 101! (By the way, how does this car into it? …It’s a VW Karman Ghia, running on the Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County,...
Electrical: one step forward and three back. Long live hypocrisy!
It has been talking so much about electric: new awareness of consumers, opportunities to not miss…untill those who (like me) recalls it as “naif stuff” of the century are branded like heretics payed by oil companies…being heartless with our future generations!
After the battles between Inter and Milan, Juventus and AS Roma, Naples and Verona (all Italian Footclubs)…here...
The Chinese army is attacking from the East
I would like to talk about an argument “frivolous”, so trivial that nobody was able to see it, at least in Europe.
In the last ten days of March it was announced that Chery’s Chineses will supply 15 A3 Sedan and 2 Tiggo (SUV) to the police in Belgrade . The news might not appear so interesting but there is something unrevealed to say.
Browsing the company website of Chery we...
FUORISERIE TORINO
Fuoriserie is the studio of specialists able to give shape to the emotions of the Customer, even from a simple sketch.
The company Fuoriserie Torino was founded by the meeting of three different epochal cultures:
The ’60s, mythical and romantic;
The 70 experimental and futuristic;
the ’80s, technology and devoted to absolute performance.
From the mix of these different passions, united...
Daimler AG and Algeria, the results of the revolts in North Africa
Today on March the 23rd I just got the following press release by Mr. Fabio Franchi (PR at Daimler Italy):
“On March 22, 2011, Daimler AG, the Algerian government, and PJS Aabar Investments signed a memorandum of understanding with Regard to the assembly of trucks and buses. The project encompasses the supply of vehicle parts to Algeria for local assembly in Rouiba. Daimler Will Provide technology...
