AAMA to Head Up New Leadership of Global Automakers' Organization
15 May 1998
AAMA to Head Up New Leadership of Global Automakers' Organization
WASHINGTON, May 14 -- It was recently announced that Andrew
H. Card, Jr., President & CEO of the American Automobile Manufacturers
Association (AAMA), was elected President of the International Organization of
Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA). Mr. Card formally assumed his position at
the OICA's General Assembly Meeting in Paris, France on May 6.
Known in Europe as the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs
d'Automobiles, OICA is a Paris-based organization made up of forty national
trade associations of motor vehicle manufacturers from around the world.
Also elected to the OICA Council at the May 6 meeting:
-- 1st Vice President -- Emilio di Camillo, General Director of Italy's
Associazione Nazionale fra Industrie Automobilistiche (ANFIA).
-- Vice President -- Dr. Bernd Gottschalk, President of Germany's Verband
der Automobilindustrie e.V. (VDA).
-- Vice President -- Takao Tominaga, Vice Chairman & Executive Managing
Director of Japan's Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA).
-- Vice President -- Paul Schiaucu, Chairman of Romania's Association of
Automotive Producers and Importers (APIA).
Card noted that he plans to work closely with his fellow Council members
to ensure that OICA will continue to promote the collective views of its
members with respect to the development and future of the automobile and its
industry.
"During my two-year term as President, it is my intention to increase the
visibility of this important international organization as the voice of the
automobile industry on matters of interest to manufacturers and consumers
throughout the world."
AAMA is the trade association whose members are Chrysler Corporation
, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation
. Visit AAMA's site on the World Wide Web at http://www.aama.com.
SOURCE American Automobile Manufacturers Association