• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Every multinational corp has execs for each region.

    President and VP of insert region operation is a common title given to EXECS of foreign corps.

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      2 months ago

      Yes, what do you think subsidiary means…?

      These engineers clearly held executive roles, they just weren’t with the Volkswagen (germany) so they would have had to clarify their subsidiary. For journalism this was the correct wording. If they wanted to call them execs, it would have had to go into detail about Volkswagen (Us particular division and reasons)

      If you’re talking about Fritolays, you don’t just go and say execs when talking about “lays” or “Doritos” subsidiaries, you would use “engineers” or whatever other work they held to simplify it.

      It’s an unnecessary distinction for non mutually exclusive exclusive terms, to use “executives” would lead to more confusion and that would be shit journalism….