TOTAL Names New Manager for its Rapid Oil Change Centers in Canada

            Montreal, Canada – TOTAL has named Jean Ride the Manager for its Rapid Oil Change Centers in Canada.  In this position Ride will be responsible for identifying growth opportunities and overseeing the development of additional Rapid Oil Change sites, training them to propose to consumers our product and to develop their oil change activity.

            Before joining TOTAL, Ride served as a Sales Representative for Honda Gabriel, a Montreal-based distributor of Honda vehicles and accessories.  Prior to this he was a Sales Representative for the Renault Rousseau Enghien dealership in France. He took an experience with lubricants when he was sales manager for Energy-Auto: distributor of lubricants product in the West Indies.   

            Ride earned his degree in management and business from E.G.C. Vendee: Ecole de Gestion et de Commerce in France.   

            TOTAL is the world’s fourth-largest oil and gas company and a world-class chemicals manufacturer. Total operates in more than 130 countries and has more than 111,000 employees.  Its ELF and TOTAL Automotive line of lubricants are available throughout the United States and Canada.

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Release:         March 14, 2007
  Gwendolyn Coverdale
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