(Reuters) -Citroen has appointed Xavier Chardon as its new CEO, the model’s proprietor Stellantis stated on Monday, because the group’s seek for its personal high government nears completion.
The French-Italian proprietor of the Jeep and Peugeot manufacturers is selecting who will lead it via one of many business’s most tumultuous durations, after its former CEO Carlos Tavares abruptly departed in December following a dramatic plunge in gross sales and revenue.
Chardon was at Citroen between 1994 and 2012, most lately as managing director of the model in France, earlier than becoming a member of the Volkswagen group the place he has been head of gross sales for Europe and for the previous 4 years head of France.
He’ll take excessive job at Citroen from June 2 and can report back to Stellantis’ Chief Working Officer for Enlarged Europe Jean-Philippe Imparato, the group added.
His predecessor, Thierry Koskas, who led the model since 2023, will go away Stellantis, a spokesperson of the group instructed Reuters.
(Reporting by Alessandro Parodi and Gilles Guillaume, Enhancing by Louise Heavens)