BMW Egypt shows no respect to death of Ganal

It seems that BMW Egypt (Bavarian Auto Group) is not only lacking PR & communications skills in dealing with the local media, but also lacks the simplest knowledge of respect and internal communication, when it comes to honoring and showing some respect to the death of BMW Board Member Dr. Michael Ganal.

Instead of sending out the press release about the death of Dr. Michael Ganal, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG after a severe illness, they preferred to inform some media about Marketing Manager Mohamed Fawzy leaving BMW Egypt to join as BMW Middle East as the new Marketing Manager.

I was very surprised indeed of BMW Egypt’s lack of respect since Dr. Michael Ganal had visited Egypt several times before and had been supporting BMW Egypt throughout the years in every possible way, especially during the ‘Bavarian-Gate’ crises with the Egyptian customs which has not been finalized yet.

It is very obvious that BMW Egypt still needs a lot of ‘private lessons’ about PR & Communication, and since Mohamed Fawzy left the company now they should consider hiring a professional PR company instead of hiring unskilled and ineffectual PR & Communication executives and marketing managers.