LAKE FOREST, IL: Tenneco Automotive, a company created earlier this month when the former Tenneco Inc. separated its packaging and auto parts businesses into two companies, has hired its first VP of global communications, luring Jim Spangler away from Arthur Andersen.
LAKE FOREST, IL: Tenneco Automotive, a company created earlier this
month when the former Tenneco Inc. separated its packaging and auto
parts businesses into two companies, has hired its first VP of global
communications, luring Jim Spangler away from Arthur Andersen.
Spangler had been Andersen’s director of media and PR, and previously
worked in Amoco’s PR department.
The Deerfield, IL-based recruitment firm Meder & Associates led the
executive search process.
In his new post, Spangler has been charged with assembling a
communications department for Tenneco and reviewing existing PR agency
relationships, according to SVP of global administration Mike Schneider.
Spangler will report directly to Tenneco’s CEO.
In recent months, Tenneco has been criticized by analysts and the
business media, who allege the company took an inordinate amount of time
to spin off its packaging business. Spangler’s first task, then, may be
crafting a communications message that distances the new automotive
offshoot from the company’s past problems. Among the firms who are
working for Tenneco or have worked with the company in the past are
Porter Novelli and Hedge & Co.
Andersen has not yet hired Spangler’s replacement. Managing partner for
communications and integrated marketing Matt Gonring is said to be
heading the search process.
