By Ian Walker
LONDON--Mobile communications company Vodafone Group PLC
(VOD.LN) Thursday unveiled changes to its organizational
structure.
From Oct. 1, the world's largest mobile communications company
by revenue will merge its Northern & Central Europe and
Southern Europe regions into one Europe region and fold its Turkish
operating company within the Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific
region.
Philipp Humm, regional CEO for northern and central Europe, will
become regional CEO for the whole of Europe.
Vodafone also said it is creating an expanded commercial
division, which will include marketing, branding and
communications, which will be headed by Paolo Bertoluzzo.
Vodafone Group Chief Executive Vittorio Colao said: "These
organizational changes will allow us to improve the customer
experience and develop our commercial strategy more quickly and
consistently."
Shares at 1105 GMT up 1 pence, or 0.61%, at 199 pence valuing
the company at 95.68 million pounds ($145.5 million).
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