CNH Capital expands into Puerto Rico
As part of a strategic growth initiative aimed at developing new markets for its products and services, CNH Capital, the financial services business of Racine-based CNH Global N.V., today announced that it is now serving equipment dealerships and their customers in Puerto Rico. CNH Global manufactures agricultural and construction equipment. CNH Capital’s equipment financing products will be sold through the agricultural and construction equipment dealerships that represent the CNH family of brands in Puerto Rico, including New Holland, New Holland Construction and Case Construction. "Equipment is a major investment for dealers and their customers," said Brett Davis, senior director of CNH Capital Ag Financial Solutions. "By establishing a presence in Puerto Rico, we can now offer equipment financing that makes investing in our equipment brands both easy and affordable." CNH Capital’s initial product offering in Puerto Rico includes wholesale and retail equipment financing. CNH Global is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fiat Group.
ASQ names new officers
Robert Saco will become the next president of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), an international organization that is based in Milwaukee. Saco will succeed Michael Nichols, who will assume the role of chairman on July 1. Saco is the owner and principal of Aporia Advisors Inc., based in Coral Gables, Fla. His areas of expertise consist of strategic planning, customer satisfaction measurement, operational process improvement and reengineering, performance assessments, Six Sigma implementation, organizational design, and business transformation initiatives. The ASQ has been a leading world authority on quality for more than 60 years. With more than 90,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide.
"ASQ is becoming a global organization to better serve our members and to help promote sound quality practices around the world," said Saco. "I look forward to the day when ASQ transitions from an American society with international members to a truly global society with a home and inspiration in America. By reaching out and helping others across the globe we can take ASQ to a higher level of excellence. We are honor-bound to improve things. It’s in our nature. And when someone asks what we do … I believe we should justifiably say that we’re making the world a better place to live in." The other new officers of ASQ are: president-elect Peter Andres; treasurer E. David Spong; newly elected board members Darlene Deane, Alexis Goncalves, Marc Kelemen, Art Trepanier; and reelected board members Belinda Chavez, Lou Anne Lathrop, Aimee Siegler and Steve Wilson.
