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Nissan Targets 8% Global Market Share and Operating Profit With Six-year Plan
27 Jun 2011, 11:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Nissan today announced its six-year business plan that will see the carmaker tackling new markets and segments in an effort to enlarge its profits and sales. The plan for fiscal years 2011 to 2016, ...
Next Generation Nissan Qashqai to Come from the UK
8 Jun 2011, 11:18 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Japanese automaker Nissan decided to put the UK in charge with the design, development and production of the next version of the Qashqai. The announcement was made today by Nissan President and CEO ...
Carlos Tavares to Replace Patrick Pelata at Renault Top
25 May 2011, 13:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The automotive industry is on the lookout for the man or woman who will be replacing Renault's former Chief Operating Officer Patrick Pelata at the car maker's tip of the pyramid ever sinc...
Nissan Will Reinforce Plants in Japan Against Earthquakes
17 May 2011, 13:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn has announced that the company plans to invest JPY 3 billion ($37 million) in order to reinforce the foundation of its most heavily damaged domestic factory after Jap...
Renault and Nissan to Remain Allies, Not Go for Joint Holding...
31 Mar 2011, 14:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / … at least, until further notice. Ever since the early hours on Thursday, the international media has been reporting about the possibility of Nissan and Renault to ditch the long lasting part...
Renault's Pelata to Throw on the Grenade to Protect Ghosn
7 Mar 2011, 12:59 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Renault's spy saga kept the front page of newspapers for week and rumors have emerged that the allegations may be unfounded. And although everybody expected to see CEO Carlos Ghosn take the bla...
Renault - Nissan Merger Impossible
14 Feb 2011, 07:46 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Renault - Nissan alliance goes surprisingly well, not only from the point of view of technologies shared by the two companies, but also in the EV sector where the French - Japanese project forme...
Renault Teases the Clio’s Fourth Generation
11 Feb 2011, 07:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / During the press conference of the Renault-Nissan group, called “Drive the change 2016”, Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Renault first released an image of the next...
Nissan Leaf Critics Envious
3 Dec 2010, 22:10 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Critics have been skeptical about Nissan's grand plans for electric cars, expressing their disapproval of the company's all-electric Leaf compact which will be introduced in Japan on Decem...
Renault to Focus on Parts Supply in F1 - CEO
8 Nov 2010, 11:55 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn admitted, without using specific words, that Renault are set to turn from a works team into a parts supplier in Formula One. Present at the Interlagos Circuit in Brazil last...
Carlos Ghosn WON'T Leave Nissan
1 Jul 2010, 08:48 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / At least, not now or anytime soon. But before jumping into details, let's review the story so far: an online media report issued by Coolsprings indicated that Carlos Ghosn wants to resign from ...
Renault and PSA To Repay State Loans Early
6 May 2010, 12:40 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen plans early repayment for part of a state loan given by the French government last year to help it through the financial crisis, Chief Executive Philippe Varin an...
Carlos Ghosn Re-Elected as Renault Chairman and CEO
3 May 2010, 08:40 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Following the Annual General Meeting of Renault’s Board of Directors, held on April 30, 2010, Carlos Ghosn has been re-elected as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for a four-year period, t...
Daimler-Renault-Nissan – Threesome Made in Heaven?...
9 Apr 2010, 10:54 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... or is it the foundation stone for a future disaster? I'm pretty sure of the former, but I'd like to think that I'm doing more than just giving a factoid opinion about it. I'm...
Nissan Leaf Production Capacity to Reach 500,000 Units by 2012
5 Mar 2010, 13:25 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Head of the Nissan-Renault alliance, Carlos Ghosn, revealed future plans during a press conference at the Geneva Auto Show on Wednesday, suggesting that he expects Leaf’s production capacity t...
Renault Appoints Laurence Dors as Executive Vice President
26 Feb 2010, 11:58 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Renault announced that the company will have a new Executive Vice President, in the person of Laurence Dors. Dors will join Renault starting from March 1 2010 and will enter a special training pe...
Nissan Preparing Renault Entry on the Chinese Market
11 Feb 2010, 11:22 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Nissan is smoothing the path for Renault’s entry on the Chinese market, as Dow Jones reports, citing Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn. "When the decision will be taken by us to go to Ch...
Renault F1 to Announce Sellout on Wednesday
15 Dec 2009, 09:22 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After BMW and Toyota, a 3rd manufacturer will leave the Formula One Championship, despite the fact that its name will live on in the series. We're talking about French car maker Renault, who wi...
Renault Hints F1 Quit Still Possible
24 Nov 2009, 08:24 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Renault's future in Formula One is not so secure as initially thought by race driver Robert Kubica. The Pole seems to have gone from a chance-less F1 team, namely BMW Sauber, to a doubtful one,...
Ghosn: Renault-Nissan-GM Would Have Saved Americans
20 Nov 2009, 11:01 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan, said in a statement that a potential transcontinental alliance with General Motors would have saved the US-based manufacturer. The three companies were close to ...