Munich. With the start of the anniversary year, the
position of Vice President Customer, Brand, Sales at BMW M GmbH is
being filled. Timo Resch will be responsible for the sales and
marketing activities of the BMW Group subsidiary from 1 January 2022.
Resch previously held the same function for BMW Motorrad, where
continuous sales growth has been achieved under his leadership since
2017. At BMW M GmbH, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, he
will succeed Thomas Felbermair, who has held this position since July
2019 and is leaving the company at the turn of the year at his own request.
“We would like to thank Thomas Felbermair for his great
commitment to strengthening our sales division. During his tenure, BMW
M GmbH has significantly expanded its product range and become the
top-selling supplier in its competitive environment,” said
Franciscus van Meel, CEO of BMW M GmbH.
Timo Resch has been working for the BMW Group in both the
automotive and motorcycle divisions since 2014. He was Head of Product
Management for the BMW X5, BMW X6 and BMW X7 models as well as the BMW
7 Series and BMW 8 Series before joining BMW Motorrad in May 2017.
“I am very pleased that with Timo Resch we have been able
to gain an experienced sales and marketing expert who already has an
impressive track record of steadily increasing sales figures in his
previous role at BMW Motorrad,” says Franciscus van Meel.
“In our anniversary year, we are facing new exciting challenges
together, which will be marked in particular by new products and the
development of performance and high-performance models with
electrified drive systems.”
Dr Markus Schramm, Senior Vice President BMW Motorrad: “I
would like to thank Timo Resch for his extraordinary commitment, which
has helped us in achieving numerous successes and records over the
past four years together with our business partners and the entire BMW
Motorrad team. Under his leadership, 2017, 2018 and 2019 each year
ended as the most successful financial year in the brand’s history. In
addition, he manoeuvred the sales division through the difficult
Corona times with very great success. In 2021, BMW Motorrad is also
heading for another sales record.”
Dr. Alexander W. Wehr will take over as Vice President Customer,
Brand, Sales of BMW Motorrad on 1 January 2022. He started out at the
BMW Group in 1997 as the Product Manager of the BMW Z8. This was
followed by various management positions within the BMW Group, among
others as the Head of Worldwide Volume Planning and Sales Steering of
the automotive segment. Most recently, he was President CEO of
BMW Group Latin America, leading the BMW subsidiaries in Mexico,
Brazil and Argentina, as well as 24 importers markets in the region.
“I thank Alexander for his remarkable commitment to Latin
America which has been proven with the solid business regionalization
process. It consisted of establishing a regional structure operated
from Mexico which assured the strengthening of our business operation
in these markets as well as the relationship with our dealers and
importers network. Regionalization accounted for an essential
foundation for building the remarkable leadership of the BMW Group in
the region and the outstanding segment share development in the
region”, says Sebastian Mackensen, Head of BMW Group Region Americas
and President CEO for BMW of North America.
Dr. Markus Schramm, Senior Vice President BMW Motorrad: “We
are very pleased to have won Alexander Wehr, an experienced colleague
and motorcycle enthusiast, for the position of Vice President
Customer, Brand, Sales BMW Motorrad. With his extensive sales
competence, he will provide important impetus on the way to achieving
our goal of becoming the number one in the premium motorcycle segment worldwide.”
BMW M GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of the BMW Group and has the
status of an independent automobile manufacturer. The company is the
world’s most successful supplier of performance and high-performance
automobiles. As the market leader in this exclusive segment, BMW M
GmbH was able to close the past two financial years with record sales
in each case. In the anniversary year 2022, numerous new BMW M
automobiles in various vehicle segments are to be launched. The
product offensive offers will inspire particularly
performance-oriented fans and new target groups hallmark BMW M brand performance.
The fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, electric power consumption
and electric range figures are determined according to the European
Regulation (EC) 715/2007 in the version applicable. They refer to
vehicles in the German market. Where a range is shown, NEDC figures
consider the different sizes of the selected wheels/tyres, while WLTP
figures take into account the impact of any optional extras.
All values were calculated based on the new WLTP test cycle. Any
NEDC values that are shown have been translated into equivalent NEDC
measurements where appropriate. WLTP values are taken as the basis for
determining vehicle-related taxes or other duties based (at least
inter alia) on CO2 emissions as well as eligibility for any applicable
vehicle-specific subsidies. Further information on the WLTP and NEDC
measurement procedures can also be found at www.bmw.de/wltp.
Further information on official fuel consumption figures and
specific CO2 emission values of new passenger cars is included in the
following guideline: ‘Leitfaden über den Kraftstoffverbrauch, die
CO2-Emissionen und den Stromverbrauch neuer Personenkraftwagen’ (Guide
to the fuel economy, CO2 emissions and electric power consumption of
new passenger cars), which can be obtained free of charge from all
dealerships, from Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH (DAT),
Hellmuth-Hirth-Str. 1, 73760 Ostfildern-Scharnhausen and at https://www.dat.de/co2/.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Corporate Communications
Martin Schleypen, Product Communications BMW M Automobile
Tel.: +49-89-382-37889
E-mail: Martin.Schleypen@bmwgroup.com
Dominik Schaidnagel, BMW Motorrad Communications
Tel.: +49-89-382-50181
E-mail: Dominik.Schaidnagel@bmwgroup.com
Ingo Wirth, Head of Product, Brand Communications BMW
Tel.: +49-89-382-25814
E-mail: Ingo.Wirth@bmwgroup.com
Jennifer Treiber-Ruckenbrod, Head of Communications MINI and BMW Motorrad
Tel.: +49-89-382-35108
E-mail: Jennifer-Ruckenbrod@bmwgroup.com
Internet: www.press.bmwgroup.com
E-Mail: presse@bmw.de
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