Suzuki Motors' former chairman and CEO, Suzuki Osamu has died at the age of ninety-four, the Japanese automaker announced on Friday.
The former Suzuki leader died on Wednesday of lymphoma, the company said in a statement.
He joined Suzuki in 1958, a company founded by his wife's grandfather, and rose through the ranks to become its chairman and CEO twenty years later. He led Suzuki Motors for more than four decades, and after 2021, he served as a senior advisor to the company.
It was under his leadership that the Suzuki plant in Esztergom, Hungary, was established in 1993.
According to a statement issued by Magyar Suzuki Plc. on the occasion of his death, Osamu Suzuki played an outstanding role in strengthening Japanese-Hungarian relations, and as a result of his work, Hungary became Suzuki's European manufacturing center and a key player in the Hungarian automotive industry.


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