Aussie takes helm at BMW
January 31, 2009 by David Twomey
Following the recent announcement that the current managing director of BMW Australia is moving on to a new post Australian-born Stavros Yallouridis has been appointed to the position.
He will take over the role of Managing Director of BMW Group Australia, from March 1.
Mr Yallouridis will take over from Guenther Seemann who will become the regional director for the sales region Asia, Pacific and South Africa.
Mr Yallouridis, 48, is currently Managing Director of BMW Group Hellas, a post he has held since August 2003 when BMW Group established a national sales company in Greece.
Under his leadership, sales of BMW Group vehicles grew rapidly in Greece despite a relatively stable market. After taking over from the previous importer, BMW sales increased from 3800 vehicles in 2003 to 8100 last year.
During the same period, MINI brand sales grew from 530 to 1700 units and BMW Motorrad sales climbed from 800 to 2000 motorcycles.
Prior to his role in establishing the BMW Group national sales company in Greece, Mr Yallouridis held various technical, sales, marketing and general management roles with Fiat Auto Hellas.
Mr Yallouridis studied automotive mechanical engineering in Melbourne and worked in Australia for nearly a decade before continuing his career in Europe.
He is married with three children.
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Will be interesting to see what an Aussie with this sort of experience will bring to the company, it seems his experience in Greece may be quite applicable to the local market.
Love the photo, the average day off for the crash test dummy family :-)
Good bludge job if u can get it at several hundred thousand a year no doubt.
What is he going to bring Deanno?
Loas them off the docks,give’m a wash and buff then display them in some pretentious showroom.
Spyros ain’t going to have much to do.LOL
Hmm, people mentioning smallgoods repeatedly in their posts, people who seem to need to make three seperate comments on the back of each other just a few minutes apart, is it the heat, or what?
The way I read it, if he can increase sales at the mentioned level in Greece in a stable market, he probably has a little more nouse than you give him credit for, Realcars.
Being born here and obviously having some runs on the board with BMW in previous roles may see him bring something to the local operation, maybe influencing and tweaking the model/feature mix, good marketing ideas, who knows…
All I will say is that the pinnacle of the Greek civilisation was three thousand years ago and they have been resting on these laurels ever since.LOL.