New chief for Haval Motors Australia

Building block: Great Wall Motors Group considers Australia a key market in its ‘global deployment’ and has installed Hidesuke Takesue as COO to help ensure the Great Wall and Haval brands succeed here.

Former Mazda exec Takesue now leading Haval, Great Wall brands here as Smith departs

Haval logo4 Jun 2018

By TERRY MARTIN

- Haval Motors Australia’s recently appointed chief operating officer Hidesuke Takesue has arrived in Australia and is now overseeing the expansion of the Haval and Great Wall Motors brands in this market.  
 
- His arrival coincides with the departure of chief marketing officer Tim Smith, whose contract was not renewed after playing a key role in Haval’s market launch in 2015 and the subsequent relaunch of Great Wall, which switched to the newly established factory operation from independent distributor Ateco Automotive.