Nissan will reorganize its sales offices in the U.S. as the automaker adjusts for declining sales and the pandemic.
Nissan Division will close its Mid-Atlantic region office in Herndon, Va., on April 1. The move will follow the shutting of the automaker's Northwest and Mountain offices in July.
"We're looking to streamline our operations because we want to become more efficient and agile," Judy Wheeler, Nissan division vice president of sales and regional operations in the U.S., said Friday. "This is an opportunity for us to do that."
Nissan Division's U.S. sales tumbled 38 percent to 597,064 vehicles in the first nine months of the year, in an overall market that fell 18 percent.
But the expansion of remote working in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is also playing a role in Nissan's decision to shrink it sales office footprint.
"We've learned a lot during this pandemic of how you can do business," Wheeler…