Stallion Group Wins Nissan Global Award for Nigeria
Multinational conglomerate, Stallion Group, has won the 2015 Nissan Global National Sales Company Award for its outstanding achievement in Nigeria. The award recognises Nissan’s growth in the Nigerian market, whilst reinforcing its growing industrial footprint. Stallion is Nissan’s exclusive manufacturer and distributor in Nigeria.
Stallion established Nigeria’s first automotive assembly facility in partnership with Nissan as a pioneering initiative in April 2014, pursuant to the federal government’s announcement of the nation’s new automotive policy late in 2013.
Since the launch of Nigeria assembled Nissan vehicles, four models are being assembled in the country creating significant employment, with the local human resources undergoing extensive training from global automotive experts from Nissan’s international auto plants.
The thriving partnership with Stallion has resulted in Nissan meeting the needs of Nigerian customers through expanding product range and country-wide retail network. The new Victoria Island showroom was the eleventh Nissan outlet in the country - a demonstration of Nissan’s long-term commitment to increase brand visibility in Africa’s most populous country.
Chairman of Stallion Group, Sunil Vaswani, said: “Together with Nissan, we are seeking to complement Nigeria’s ambitions to become the region’s automotive hub. We are providing a comprehensive range of passenger, commercial and recreational vehicles, and are currently engaged in a dynamic program of new model introduction.”
He added: “Stallion is investing into developing an integrated value chain for its brands in the country, thereby acting as a catalyst for Nigeria’s automotive eco system.”
Managing Director and President of Nissan South Africa, Mike Whitfield, said: “We have worked side by side with the Stallion Group to achieve what is a very encouraging increase in our share of the key Nigerian market.Within Nissan, we have a strong desire to make a full and lasting contribution to rebuilding automotive industrialisation in Nigeria and to play an important role in the growth of the manufacturing sector.
“I would personally like to congratulate the entire Stallion NMN team on a job well done. I am confident we will maintain this great momentum gng forward,” Whitfield concluded.
Nissan General Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, Jim Dando, said: “We’re well placed in the sub-Saharan region to meet our customers’ needs through an expanding model range, retail network and an evolving industrial footprint in Nigeria, building cars ‘in’ Africa, ‘for’ Africa.
“Together with the Stallion Group, Nissan is fully committed to evolving and developing the business and playing an important part in the growth story of Nigeria’s automotive market.”