Visteon Opens Visteon Village in Van Buren Township
07 August 2004 - 3:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Visteon Opens Visteon Village in Van Buren Township New Corporate
Offices and Innovation Center Promote Greater Collaboration and
Innovation VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ --
Visteon Corporation (NYSE:VC) has begun moving employees into
Visteon Village, its new, 800,000- square-foot corporate offices
and innovation center in Van Buren Township, Mich. The move
consolidates employees from 13 Southeast Michigan facilities to
realize cost savings and efficiencies and to provide customers with
enhanced product innovation. (Photo:
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Village is situated on a 265-acre site and was designed to
facilitate innovation and collaboration among customers, employees
and supplier partners. The Village will initially house 3,200
employees and is one of four Visteon facilities in Southeast
Michigan that will consolidate employees formerly located at
multiple sites. It has nine buildings, including a central building
called "Village Center" overlooking a 37-acre lake. "Visteon
Village enhances our emphasis on our customers, creates a sense of
unity among our employees, and helps us share best practices," says
Mike Johnston, Visteon president and chief executive officer.
"Visteon is bringing its people together in an open environment
that is geared toward achieving greater efficiencies and added
value for our customers. Visteon Village will help us expand and
evolve that initiative." The Village, which is eight miles from the
geographic center of Visteon's Southeast Michigan employee base,
consolidates much of the administrative, customer support and
research and development work now performed at 13 non-
manufacturing sites throughout the area. "Consolidating activities
from 13 sites to Visteon Village and three other main facilities
will result in significant cost reductions for the company," adds
Johnston. "There are savings in facility and equipment-related
costs, but we also will realize other financial benefits from the
increased efficiency and productivity of our employees." The
Village houses customer business groups, product line teams,
innovation and advanced business development, global program
management, aftermarket, information technology, corporate
relations, finance, marketing, testing, a design center and labs.
The new corporate offices also include six dedicated customer
innovation centers, as well as three product innovation centers.
Customer service centers are dedicated to individual customers and
will be used to conduct general business and for the proprietary
development of products and technologies. Product innovation
centers are where Visteon product line teams design and develop
concept technologies for potential customer sales. "Visteon Village
embodies our commitment to being a customer-focused organization,"
says Julie Fream, Visteon vice president and general manager,
DaimlerChrysler customer business group, North America. "Our
customers, suppliers, employees and visitors will experience an
energized atmosphere designed to encourage creativity,
collaboration and innovation." With its team-oriented environment
and centrally located functions, the Village will help the company
better support its customers and develop the innovative products
they want and need. It will also allow Visteon to better prioritize
its resources to move products seamlessly from creation to launch.
Upgrades to Visteon's information technologies will provide further
improvements in efficiency. Amenities on the Village's "Main
Street" will include a convenience store, a salon, a restaurant, a
bank and a fitness center, which is scheduled to open in the spring
of 2005. The site also features a nature trail through the wooded
wetlands, which will be available for both employees and the
community to enjoy. An important focus of the development of the
Village was its sustainable design, which provides for minimal
impact to the environment within the 265- acre site. Visteon
planted 5,000 trees throughout the campus to enhance the
environment. Located approximately 25 miles west of Detroit,
Visteon Village is two miles north of the I-275 and I-94
interchange, bounded by I-275 on the west, Ecorse Road on the north
and Tyler Road on the south. Visteon Corporation is a leading
full-service supplier that delivers consumer-driven technology
solutions to automotive manufacturers worldwide and through
multiple channels within the global automotive aftermarket. Visteon
has approximately 72,000 employees and a global delivery system of
more than 200 technical, manufacturing, sales and service
facilities located in 25 countries.
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Visteon Corporation CONTACT: Kim Welch, +1-313-755-3537, , or
Melinda Czarnecki, +1-313-755-5448, , both of Visteon Corporation
Web site: http://www.visteon.com/
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