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Profitability And Growth Potential Drive MAN Investment

October 2011 | Company News Alert

MAN Latin America, the local division of German truck maker MAN, is looking to spend more than EUR400mn on expanding its production and research and development capacity in the region between 2012 and 2016. BMI sees the investment - the largest in the division's history - as a reflection of ongoing optimism in the Brazilian commercial vehicle segment and a testament to BMI's long-held view about the outperformance of the segment over passenger cars.

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