Mumbai, March 20 -- Continental AG announced the one of the largest organisational changes in the technology company's history with some significant personnel decisions at the executive board level.

As a result of these decisions, Christian Kotz, who heads the Commercial Vehicle Tires business unit, has been appointed as head of the Tire division and Corporate Purchasing. Kotz will assume his new role on April 1, 2019, as well. His appointment will run for three years until the end of March 2022.

Executive Board member Nikolai Setzer, who is responsible for the Tire division and Corporate Purchasing, will switch to Continental's Automotive Group on April 1, 2019. Here, he will assume the new position of spokesman for the Automotive Board ...