Canon Australia fine tunes leadership structure

Canon Australia today announced changes to its Marketing, Sales & Services Division which will position Canon for aggressive growth and ensure it becomes market leader in all product categories. 

“We’ve made some brave changes to the business over the past 18 months and achieved some amazing results in challenging economic conditions. Today’s changes will see Canon continue its journey of becoming more customer focused, ensure that customers have greater access to Canon and that Canon is well positioned to continue to achieve its aggressive growth targets,” said Allan Corder, Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Managing Director, Canon Australia.

The key change is the creation of two new groups within Marketing, Sales & Services – Canon Business Imaging (CBI) and Canon Consumer Imaging (CCI) – which will deliver office solutions and consumer products respectively. There are no changes to Canon’s Services Business.

"We’ve made some brave changes to the business over the past 18 months and achieved some amazing results in challenging economic conditions."

Craig Manson, currently Senior General Manager – Marketing at Canon, has been appointed to the newly created role of Director Canon Business Imaging with accountability for all Production Print and Office Print sales and marketing activities.

Craig has been with Canon for nearly six years, running both the Business and Consumer divisions in New Zealand, before being promoted to Managing Director of Canon New Zealand. Since February 2009 Craig has been heading the Consumer and Business Marketing teams in Australia.

Jason McLean , currently Senior General Manager - Indirect Sales at Canon, has been appointed to the newly created role of Director Canon Consumer Imaging with accountability for all consumer product sales and marketing activities. 

Jason has been with Canon for almost 4 years and during this time has worked hard to make the Canon Sales team more Category, Customer & Shopper focused, to keep Canon successful in the Market.

Both roles report to Allan Corder.

“These changes are an evolution of our current structure and about ensuring we have the agility to conquer the changing markets we operate in.  There are no job losses as a result of this restructure, we’re currently recruiting for sales managers and a number of internal candidates have been promoted as we position ourselves for further growth and success,” Allan concluded.