Cousin succeeds Brisset at RhI
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• The chief executive of Renault Vehicules IndustrieIs (RVI) in Belgium, Francis Cousin, is moving to Britain to succeed Laurent Brisset as chairman and managing director of Renault Truck Industries, the Renault/Dodge operation in Britain.
Brisset, who has headed RT1 for the past five years, is returning to his native France to take up a senior RVI post. Cousin has held the Belgian post for the same period as Brisset was in Britain and has a financial background, being a member of the Institute of French Actuaries. He joined RVI as export marketing director in 1977 and became marketing director two years later.
Under Brisset's stewardship, Renault took over the Dodge truck business from Talbot (which inherited it with the Chrysler car business in Europe) and has begun to integrate it with Renault's European truck range.
According to the company, it believes it can break even financially within three years.
Brisset said last week: "From a situation when the company was sustaining unacceptably high losses, Renault Truck Industries' losses have been substantially reduced."