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Hyundai Seals New Partnership Deal With Mamelodi Sundowns

Hyundai has sealed a new brand partnership with the current African and CAF Super Cup champion, Mamelodi Sundowns FC, thus showing its commitment to African football. The 3-year-deal, which is coming barely a month after a similar automotive partnership deal was sealed between Ford Motors and Orlando Pirates,  goes beyond ...

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Goodyear Wrangler DuraTrac Tyres for Land Rover Experience Tour Peru

Goodyear’s Wrangler DuraTrac tyres have been chosen by Land Rover as its official tyre partner for the 2017 Land Rover Experience Tour Peru and the tyres will be tested to the limit during the tour which started October 14, running through November 9, 2017. During the four-week expedition, a selection of ...

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Volvo, Geely Holdings Splash EUR 640 million on Polestar

….As Polestar unveils its first car – the Polestar 1   Volvo Cars and its owner, Geely Holdings, Tuesday announced a joint investment of EUR 640 million to support the initial phase of Polestar’s product, brand and industrial development. Polestar is Volvo Car Group’s performance arm.  The investment, according to ...

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Ford, Coscharis Motors Sponsor the Next Titan

Ford Motor Company in collaboration with its local distributor in Nigeria, Coscharis Motors, has announced its participation as a supporting sponsor of the Next Titan, an entrepreneurial reality show.  A brand-new Ford Ranger will be presented as a prize to the overall winner of the competition to start their new ...

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ICA Awards for Heritage Bank’ Senior Executives

  The Institute of Credit Administration (ICA) has conferred distinguished awards on two senior management executives of Heritage Bank Plc at the Nigeria Credit Industry Awards and Postgraduate School of Credit and Financial Management (PSCFM) graduation ceremony held at the weekend in Lagos. The awardees are Mr. Jude Monye, an ...

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Coscharis Motors Unveils Ford Assembly Plant in Lagos

Coscharis Motors, Ford’s sole representative in Nigeria, Friday, unveiled its newly-built, ultra-modern Ford Assembly Plant to the media in Lagos. The massive facility in which no fewer than 600 units of made-in-Nigeria Ford Ranger have been rolled off the production line sits on a portion of the 14-hectare expanse of land ...

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TSL, Nigeria’s Largest Multi-brand Auto Workshop, Opens for Business Thursday

          (By Olaolu Olusina) Nigeria is set to witness a transformation in the automotive workshop business despite the general downturn in the auto sector. This is as TSL, an auto workshop that is poised to emerge as the largest multi-brand automotive workshop in the country is ...

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Home One-Two for Toyota GAZOO Racing

 Toyota GAZOO Racing earned a one-two finish at its home race following an eventful and rain-affected 6 Hours of Fuji, the seventh round of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), on Sunday. Sébastien Buemi, Anthony Davidson and Kazuki Nakajima won their third race of the season in the #8 ...

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Nissan Names Anthony Thomas Chief Information Officer

  The group CIO at GE Global, Anthony Thomas (Tony), has been named the Chief Information Officer by Nissan. Thomas, who is expected to assume the duties of CVP, CIO (chief information officer), Global IS/IT Nissan on Oct. 23, 2017, will be based at Nissan’s headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, and ...

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Scuderia SA Celebrates Ferrari at 70, Unveils 812 Superfast

  The official Ferrari dealer in South Africa, Scuderia South Africa, Saturday in Johannesburg, joined the rest of the Ferrari family worldwide to mark the 70th Anniversary of the world’s most famous Prancing Horse. As the iconic car clocks 70 on 2017, over 60 countries across the globe will host ...

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