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Moneyweb reports that there has been shake-up in the senior management of Nissan SA, with new managing director Maciej Klenkiewicz indicating that his focus will be on unlocking the potential in Africa by expanding into new markets in the continent to increase sales.
Klenkiewicz has replaced Nissan SA country director Kabelo Rabotho, who will be leaving the company at the end of this month after having been in the position since December 2020. Klenkiewicz provided more insight into the decision to reduce Nissan SA’s total headcount of 1,650 by an estimated 400 employees. He said the manufacturer’s priority was to find a second product for production at its Rosslyn plant in Pretoria. The planned retrenchments are due to its inability to secure a replacement model to its NP200 half-ton bakkie for production at the plant. It was planned that the replacement model would be built on a Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance shared platform in Russia but the geopolitical situation in Russia meant this model was no longer viable due to significantly reduced volumes. Klenkiewicz said that plan had now been completely scrapped. “Currently we are looking through the whole portfolio of our global production in trying to find what is the best model that we can fit into the South African market for Africa but to also localise in the plant in Rosslyn,” Klenkiewicz indicated.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Roy Cokayne at Moneyweb
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