Plastic Omnium Buys Varroc Lighting

Varroc Engineering has agreed to sell their more-than-three-wheeled-vehicle lighting business to French supplier Plastic Omnium for €600m. The impetus behind the sale: Varroc wants to reduce debt while focusing on their electronics, connectivity, and EV product ranges in the high-growth Chinese and Indian markets and on the 2-wheeler segment globally. Varroc will divest their 12…

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Philippe Aumont

Philippe Aumont is a highly experienced executive with almost 40 years in the automotive interior supplier industry. Both engineering & business graduate, completed by many general management programs. He acted as Chief Technology Officer at Faurecia Seating, between 2011 and 2017. Previously he worked for Roth Frères, Johnson Controls and Faurecia, with various position in R&D, Marketing, Strategy, new product development, Open Innovation, start-ups, university, and earlier in JIT, Production, Program Management, Costing, Sales… with permanent assignment in France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, and frequent travels in the US, Japan, China & India. Philippe is board member at SIA (Society of Automotive Engineers in France), and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Engineering school). Philippe is passionate about automotive product and business model reshuffling (Autonomy, Connectivity, New Energy, Environment, and Car sharing), Innovation culture, organization, Technology scouting, Start-ups, Occupant-centric Design (Comfort, Perceived Quality, HMI, Cognitive…)

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