4. März 2020

Hankook: Sanghoon Lee is the new president and COO

Hankook Tire Europe prepared itself for the new decade: At the beginning of the year, Sanghoon Lee was nominated as new Chief Operation Officer (COO) and President. Until then, Lee was responsible for the Chinese market and is Han-Jun Kim’s successor, who will take over new responsibilities within the Hankook Tire & Technology Group. Sanghoon Lee will be responsible for the whole operative business in Europe and the CIS countries.

Lastly, the 53-year-old was COO at Hankook Tire China. According to company information, since 2011, he had also been in charge of the strategy department in the Chinese headquarters in Shanghai and highly influenced the expansion of Hankook’s market shares in China.

“I am really pleased with my new task here at Hankook’s European head office, above all because the automotive economy has traditionally been especially strong here and Europe has been one of our core markets. Moreover, I will be responsible for strengthening our company’s innovative power and for digitalization”, says Sanghoon Lee, who has been working for Hankook since 1993. (dw)

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Hankook Tire Europe: Sanghoon Lee ist neuer Präsident und COO

Hankook Tire Europe hat sich für das neue Jahrzehnt neu aufgestellt: Zum Jahreswechsel wurde Sanghoon Lee zum neuen Chief Operation Officer (COO) und Präsidenten ernannt. Lee war bisher für den chinesischen Markt zuständig und folgt auf Han-Jun Kim, der innerhalb der Hankook Tire & Technology Group neue Aufgaben übernehmen wird.

Hankook, Personalie

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Tyre tests not relevant for purchasing decision

The people responsible for the tyre dealer search engine Reifen-vor-Ort compared the top sellers of the current summer tyre season with the results of tyre tests. They aimed at checking the importance of test results for the purchasing decision.

English Section, Reifenindustrie, Reifenmarkt

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MWheels nominates Stefan Kantz as European Office Coordinator

The MWheels GmbH based in Neuwied has nominated Stefan Kantz as European Office Coordinator in order to reinforce overseas business. Kantz is to support both the distribution and the finance team in an administrative way, and to coordinate logistics providers. Thus, he is meant to guarantee that all customer needs will be satisfied within the framework of budget and schedule.

English Section, Personalie

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The Tire Cologne: Key players agree to come

The tyre trade fair REIFEN experienced its final issue in Essen this year. The Tire Cologne, which was invented by Koelnmesse and BRV, positioned itself as new industry trade fair. When looking at the communicated registration figures the first edition seems to turn into a superlative industry event in 2018. According to responsible trade fair people, all the key players were already on board for 2018. After important key players of the industry had already expressed their support for the event in the framework of the campaign “We are taking part” in May, the list of participants seemed to have grown considerably nearly a year later.

English Section, Reifenindustrie, Messen, The Tire Cologne