Wolfgang Thomale, who has also been heading Commercial Specialty Tires since July 1, is responsible for the new business unit. The new unit also includes the Two-Wheel Tires area under the leadership of Thomas Falke and Racing under the responsibility of Joerg Burfien.

In the new role, Thomale reports directly to Christian Kötz, head of the Tires business area, and member of the Executive Board of Continental AG. Kötz said:

“With the new business unit, we are following the path we embarked on to consistently align all activities in the Tires business area with the customer. We are merging niche segments with highly-specialized requirements on the part of customers in order to develop solutions and services even more quickly and flexibly and to gradually expand our product range in the interests of our customers.”

Wolfgang Thomale has been working at Continental for almost 30 years. He has held various positions at this time, most recently as head of PLT Channel Management Retail & Region Central Europe.

Source: Continental

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