4.9.2019. Award for Wayne Griffiths. The Board of management for sales and Marketing of SEAT S. A. and CEO of CUPRA will receive the annually awarded Eurostars Award by the magazine “Automotive News”.
Thus, the magazine pays tribute to the record-breaking financial figures of the SEAT, and the successful introduction of the new Performance brand CUPRA. The award ceremony will take place next Monday, may 9. September 2019, with more than 70 executives from the automotive industry in the framework of the International automobile exhibition (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main.
“It’s a Team effort,”
Wayne Griffiths said: “This award is recognition for the hard work done by the entire SEAT Team in the past few years, in order to SEAT position as Europe’s fastest growing automotive brand. So CUPRA exceeds all expectations and recorded sales in the first year of its existence growth of 40 percent. The automotive sector is in transition and SEAT CUPRA, we look to the future with optimism.“
SEAT chasing one record after the other
Wayne Griffiths’ contribution as a Board member for sales and Marketing for SEAT crucial to achieve in the past financial year, the best result in the history of the company: The brand increased by 33.4 per cent higher operating profit than in the previous year, and the record value of 254 million euros. In 2018, the company sold a worldwide total of 517.600 vehicles – a Plus of 10.5 percent compared to 2017. The year 2019 is continuing to SEAT with the same momentum and surpassed in the first six months, sales-best value by 2018. Global deliveries increased in the first half of the year by 8.4 percent to 314.300 vehicles. So the CUPRA with approximately 12,700 cars sold – 73.1 percent more than in the same period of 2018 – a record half-year.
About Wayne Griffiths
Wayne Anthony Griffiths is since 1. September 2016 Board member for sales and Marketing at SEAT S. A., since the 3. December 2018, the Briton is also the CEO of the CUPRA. 1966 in Dukinfield (United Kingdom) was born, worked the operation of the son of a car dealer first of all in the family, marriage, he studied International Management and German in Leeds. Griffiths’ career is closely related to the Volkswagen group interwoven: in 1989, he began working at Audi AG in Ingolstadt on.
After a short stint at SEAT, between 1991 and 1993, he returned to Audi and took over various management functions in the newly created management Board division for sales and Marketing. Then Griffiths as assistant to the management Board for Marketing and sales activities. From 1997 to 1998, the Briton stood in front of the International trade marketing, and has hero since 1998 a number of management positions in the sales Department of Audi AG. From 2005 to 2013 he was responsible for sales in the European export markets.
Until his appointment to the management Board for sales and Marketing of SEAT S. A. Mr Griffiths head of sales for Audi AG in Germany.
Wayne Griffiths (photo: CUPRA)
