Executive Interview with Thomas Beer, President and CEO, IMC
This week we hear from Thomas Beer, president and CEO of IMC. Beer joined IMC three years ago as president and CEO. Before IMC he managed and co-owned Infox, a marketing services and distribution company in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. He started his career in the international sales and marketing department of Lufthansa German Airlines, and later became CEO of EVS, also in Germany. Beer has an MBA from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. He is also a member of the AAIA Leadership Development Network Committee. Join us as Beer shares his thoughts on the import parts market and what his company is doing to help streamline business for repair shops working with import nameplates.
Valvoline and Fallbrook Technologies Inc. Sign Trademark Licensing and Development Agreement
The Valvoline division of Ashland Inc., and Fallbrook Technologies Inc. (Fallbrook), a technology development and intellectual property licensing company, announced that they have entered into a trademark licensing and development agreement to design, test and market specialty fluids designed to optimize the performance of Fallbrook’s NuVinci Continuously Variable Planetary (CVP) transmission technology.
Johnson Controls and Saft to Form Joint Venture for Hybrid Vehicle Batteries
Johnson Controls and Saft have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture for advanced technology batteries to accelerate their participation in the hybrid vehicle market.