Gary Savage is to retire from Mercedes-Benz Automobiles within the UK in June 2024 after 14 years with the enterprise, the final decade spent serving as CEO and managing director.

Karl Schregle, head of Europe, Mercedes-Benz, stated: “Below Gary’s management Mercedes-Benz within the UK has gone from power to power over the previous 14 years. Gary’s insightful, collaborative strategy, partnering with our community, alongside together with his optimistic management of the UK staff, enabled us to efficiently launch Company Mannequin D within the UK in January 2023.

“On a private observe, I’ve all the time valued the completely different views that Gary brings to the enterprise. I wish to thank him for his tireless efforts, excellent contribution and wonderful outcomes and need him a really blissful and wholesome retirement.”

In a 2017 interview with AM, Savage suggested his franchisees that the long run future would carry OEM direct gross sales; six years later, true to his phrase, the Mercedes-Benz UK community adopted the company mannequin.

With impact from 1 March, Olivier Reppert will be a part of the UK staff, as Savage’s successor.

Olivier Reppert started his profession at DaimlerChrysler as an after gross sales product supervisor in 1998 and three years later he moved to DC Abroad in Stuttgart to be a supervisor for after gross sales advertising and marketing. From 2004 to 2008 he directed the supplier community improvement at MB Schweiz. 

Returning to Stuttgart, he turned chargeable for main the MB regional technique for China and Russia as a part of the worldwide enterprise administration and in 2010 he joined the gross sales division at sensible and assumed the management for sensible Germany in 2013. In November 2014, Olivier was promoted to world head of name, product administration & gross sales at sensible. 

From October 2016 he served because the CEO of car2go and since February 2019 has been the CEO of Share Now.