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Bouillot appointed Tecumseh Europe md

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François Bouillot

FRANCE: Organisational changes at Tecumseh Europe has seen François Bouillot appointed managing director.

He is the first md of Tecumseh Europe since the departure of Sandro Ruffato in 2013.

Bouillot joined Tecumseh Europe in 2013 as operations director in charge of all the industrial activities of the group in Europe. Prior to that he worked at Carrier for 10 years, latterly as project director in Europe.

François Massé remains as sales director and Stéphane Charbonnier marketing director. In addition Charbonnier will hold the position of global value-added systems/condensing unit director.

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