L-R: Mr. Haresh Vaswani, Vice Chairman,
Sunil Vaswani, Chairman both of Stallion Group of Companies, Mr. Mr. Mike
Whitfield, Managing Director and Mr. Jimmy Dando, General Manager both of
Nissan South Africa at the celebration of Stallion NMN Limited brand custodianship and national sales company of Nissan at the Grand ball Room, Oriental Hotel Lagos recently.
Nissan celebrated an evening of
innovation and excitement with special guests in Lagos last week, following the
launch of the new Nissan distributor, Stallion NMN, in May this year. The new partnership affirms Nissan’s
commitment to strong representation in Nigeria, a vibrant market that is
expected to deliver significant growth and contribution to Nissan’s global
midterm plan, Nissan Power88. Nissan’s three year fiscal objective conveys the
responsibility of repositioning and enhancing Nissan’s influence in Nigeria on
Stallion NMN Limited, as new Nissan custodian and national sales company.
This was how Mr. Mike Whitfield,
Managing Director, Nissan South Africa, summarized the key objective of the
occasion where Stallion NMN custodianship was crystallized and a number of
intriguing Nissan models were launched.
He envisioned that by the end of
fiscal 2016, “We aim to achieve a global market share of eight percent and
sustainable operating profit of eight percent and Nigeria is an important
market in that plan.”
“Nissan is already reaping the dividend
of Power 88 globally,’ he said, ‘We started the year 2013 on a high note, and
markets in Africa, with their favourable growth indices, are key to our
achievement.”
Mr. Whitfield attributed the growth
potentials in Africa to improved economic governance, rapid urbanisation with
expanding middle class and growing workforce, saying “It is inevitable that
this growing consumer base will become increasingly motorised with Nissan at
the forefront of initiatives to capture the market.”
Nissan will be tapping into Africa’s
markets with its smart and fuel-efficient B and C segment passenger vehicles
such as Nissan Micra, Almera and Sentra.
Mr. Parvir Singh, Managing Director,
Stallion NMN Limited, acknowledged in his keynote address the ingenuity of
Nissan’s technology, remarking that “Nissan has transcended the challenges of
yesterday, living up to its new tagline ‘Innovation that Excites’ – one of the
compelling reasons why the brand has become the toast of many discerning
automobile lovers worldwide.”
He highlighted Nissan’s relationship
with Usain Bolt, the Jamaican Olympic gold medalist and world’s fastest
sprinter who is Nissan’s ‘Ambassador of Excitement’, as proof of Nissan’s
imaginative technology.
“Capturing the imagination of
customers is one of the conditions for Nissan’s diverse range of models cutting
across various applications,” Mr. Singh stated.
The highpoint of the event was the
unveiling of Nissan’s star attraction, GT-R and some other exciting models that
have undergone real time transformation such as the 370Z, Pathfinder, Teana (also
known as Altima in other markets) and Sentra.
Mr Singh explained that Stallion Group
with strong local experience had joined forces with Nissan as a global brand,
to position the brand as Nigeria’s preferred choice of automobile.
A subsidiary of the Stallion Group,
Stallion NMN would be guided by the parent company’s four decade experience
that has crisscrossed vital sectors of Nigeria economy, and establish
state-of-the-art showrooms and service facilities at Victoria Island and Lekki,
both in Lagos, as well as Abuja and Port-Harcourt.
The company’s track record is manifested
in infrastructures such as world-class showrooms, workshops, vehicle assembly
plants, factories, warehousing, cold storages, agriculture, logistics and
transportation.
Other notable achievements are in
shipping, commodities trading, rice milling, deep sea fishing, plastics,
packaging, home automation and office technology. Stallion has similarly
excelled in banking, and in 2005 its fully owned Reliance Bank merged with
other banks to become Skye Bank PLC.
Armed with this plethora of
achievement, Mr. Singh said: “We will
combine the Stallion philosophy with the Nissan Way for a customer experience
that will set a new standard in Nigeria. Our obligation is to make ownership of
Nissan an exciting experience both in the quality of Nissan vehicles and in after
sales service.”
L-R: Mr. Haresh Vaswani, Vice Chairman, Stallion
Group of Companies, Mr. Phillips Oduoza, Group Managing Director, Uba and Mr.
Sunil Vaswani, Chairman, Stallion Group at the celebration of Stallion NMN brand custodianship and national sales company of Nissan at the Oriental Hotel Lagos recently.
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