Claas has announced a number of management changes. Familiar face and Claas UK CEO, Trevor Tyrrell becomes senior vice president for Western Europe for the firm’s sales and service division.

Mr Tyrrell takes over from Christian Radons who joins the Group executive board and will be responsible for global sales and service division. He succeeds Bernd Ludewig who will take on new activities outside the company.

“We would like to thank Bernd Ludewig for his successful development work as regional managing director in Eastern Europe and his four years of committed service on the Group executive board,” explains Thomas Böck, chairman of Claas’ Group executive board. “We are also very pleased that with Christian Radons, we have been able to internally recruit an experienced and imaginative manager for this important task.”