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Groves defects: it's now official
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• As predicted by Commercial Motor Cliff Groves, the former director of marketing at Scania (GB) has been officially appointed as managing director of Steyr-Daimler-Puch Trucks Great Britain — the daughter company of Austrian truck builder Steyr-Daimler-Puch which will be entering the UK CV market in September.
The first phase of Steyr's UK assault will be based on its 13and 17-tonne rigid models and two 38-tonne tractive un
its. (See Vehicle News last week). Ernst Franck!, managing director of Steyr's truck division reports. "We plan to have our UK operation up and running well ahead of our 6 September pre-NEC motor show product launch."
The first task for 49-year-old Groves "will be the recruitment of key staff, determining the location of our head office and establishing the UK dealer network."
According to S-D-P, the location of Steyr's UK offices will be decided within the coming month and that the first dealers should be appointed shortly.