MARC Pasture has been appointed as general manager of Alfa Romeo in Germany, replacing Dietmar Futterer, who is retiring after 24 years with the company.

Pasture was head of Citroen Deutschland from 1988 to 1992 and before that worked for Pirelli, holding a number of senior positions in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy.

More recently he was a board member responsible for sales and marketing of German electric power supplier VEW Energie/ RWE Plus.