Visteon Pumps Up Presence in Aftermarket With Opening of New Center in Germany

FRANKFURT, Germany (PROTEXT) - Visteon Automotive Systems is intensifying its efforts to become a leading aftermarket brand in Europe with the opening of a new aftermarket product center in Morfelden-Walldorf near Frankfurt, Germany. The center will handle all of Visteon's European aftermarket activities, including contracts, orders and technical assistance on product systems such as multimedia, heating and cooling, air conditioning, and steering. Visteon has invested over $2 million to ensure that the facility uses state-of-the-art hardware and software technology to handle customer inquiries and meet their needs quickly and efficiently. "We want to ensure that in the future, not only do people link Visteon to the first point of sales but also to the commerce of high-tech products beyond the initial purchase," said Erik Lundtoft, Visteon's European director of aftermarket operations. "To fulfill the role of an aftermarket service supplier, it is imperative that we maintain contact with the end user." Visteon's European aftermarket office will be supported by existing and planned sales offices in Paris, Turin, Coventry, Prague, Munich, Wolfsburg and Gothenburg. The aftermarket center will also manage the logistics for a large warehouse distribution center located near the Amsterdam Shiphol Airport in the Netherlands. A technical and sales office to handle new customers such as General Motors and Adam Opel AG will be located next to the aftermarket product center in Morfelden-Walldorf and will employ engineers, technicians and account managers to work on customer programs. With a global delivery system of more than 125 technical, manufacturing, sales and service facilities located in 21 countries, Visteon Automotive Systems is leveraging the talents of its 77,000 employees to deliver innovative, consumer-driven systems solutions to its customers. ots Original Text Service: Visteon Automotive Systems Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Dolores Muniz, +32-0-2720-96-12, dmuniz@visteon.com , or Cheryl Eberwein, 313-248-6321, ceberwein@visteon.com , both of Visteon Web site: http://media.visteon.com Web site: http://www.visteon.com Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug "PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to be published under the "CTK" slug. Protext is a commercial service providing distribution of press releases from clients, who are identified in the text of Protext reports and who bear full responsibility for their contents. PROTEXT