Sébastien Guigues, New Marketing Director of SEAT Spain

MARTORELL, SPAIN – July 18, 2011: Sébastien Guigues (33), from Avignon, France, has been appointed as the new head of Marketing for SEAT in Spain starting on 1 July, reporting directly to SEAT Spain Director Vicente Adrián.

He is replacing Artur Martins, who is moving on to pursue other functions within the Volkswagen Group.

Sébastien Guigues joined the Consortium in 2001 as a controller in Volkswagen Group France. He later joined SEAT in 2004 to work in the Foreign Market department, within the logistics project for France and Central Fleets.

In 2007, Guigues was made responsible for SEAT Spain Fleets and RAC (rent-a-car). He held this post until 2009, when he returned to the Foreign Market department as regional manager for France and Italy until currently.

Sébastien Guigues holds an MBA from the Marseille School of Management and Business – University of Valencia.

He is married and has a son.

SEAT is the only company in its sector with the full-range capacity to design, develop, manufacture and market cars in Spain. A member of the Volkswagen Group, the multinational has its headquarters in Martorell (Barcelona), exporting approximately 75% of its production to 72 countries. SEAT is the market leader in Spain, and in 2010 reached a turnover amounting to 4.7 billion euros, with total sales of 339,500 vehicles.

SEAT Group employs 13,000 professionals at its three production centres in Barcelona - Zona Franca, El Prat de Llobregat and Martorell, where it manufactures the highly successful Ibiza and Leon, amongst other models. The Volkswagen Group production facility at Palmela in Portugal supplies the SEAT Alhambra.

The Spanish multinational also has a Technical Centre, a ‘knowledge hub’ bringing together more than 900 engineers whose goal is to be the driving force behind innovation for the number one industrial investor in R&D+i in Spain. In line with its declared commitment to environmental protection, SEAT undertakes and bases its core activity on sustainability, namely reduction of CO2 emissions, energy efficiency, as well as recycling and re-using of resources.