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Companies / Brazil
Trade secretary Tatiana Prazeres has repeated the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade's intention to possibly scrap a trade agreement between Brazil and Mexico, in what BMI sees as yet another desperate attempt by Brazil to battle with its bulging trade deficit in the autos sector. This poses a significant risk to Brazil's coveted third position in BMI's...
2012-02-03Industry / Venezuela
Sundecop, a Venezuelan governing body responsible for regulating, supervising and implementing prices in the country, is reportedly reviewing cost structures and plans to come up with...
2012-02-02Industry / Italy
When Italy's Fiat acquired bankrupt US carmaker Chrysler in 2009 it was with the intention of turning the company around, but results for 2011 show a resurgent Chrysler bolstering Fiat's...
2012-02-02Industry / South Korea
Ford Motor is one of the first US carmakers to make a move to increase exports to South Korea under the Korea-US (KORUS) free trade agreement (FTA) ratified in 2011. While the terms of the FTA will make it much easier to gain access to the South Korean market, BMI believes the increased competitiveness of US exports will provide further impetus for other similar projects to follow,...
2012-02-03Industry / India
Swedish commercial vehicle (CV) manufacturer Scania has announced investment in a new Regional Product Centre, to expand on its existing partnerships within the mining sector and introduce...
2012-02-01Industry / Thailand
Despite the recent flooding, which disrupted supplies in the auto sector, German automotive component supplier Continental believes the market is still a central regional production...
2012-01-31Industry / Poland
Imports of used cars in Poland are struggling to return to pre-crisis levels, reaching only 655,314 units in 2011 - down almost 9% compared with 2010 and almost 35% lower compared with 2008 levels. However, the segment fared better than the overall new car market, which was down more than 12% year-on-year (y-o-y), to 277,430 units, during the same period. Going forward in 2012,...
2012-02-02Industry / Estonia
New passenger car sales in Estonia grew a robust 92.0% y-o-y to 19,766 units during 2011 on the back of stellar real GDP growth, estimated at 8.0% during the year. Although the growth...
2012-01-30Industry / Kazakhstan
New light vehicle sales in Kazakhstan - comprising passenger cars and light commercial vehicles - reached 44,600 during 2011, growing an impressive 107% compared with 2010, according...
2012-01-26Industry / South Africa
The South African unit of Japanese truck maker UD Trucks has highlighted the risk of rail freight growth to heavy truck sales, which enjoyed growth of 35% year-on-year (y-o-y) to 26,149 units in 2011. This fits the view that BMI's Freight Transport team have put forward, that projects such as Toyota Motor's move to ship its vehicles by rail rather than road provide upside risk to...
2012-02-03Industry
Premium carmaker Bentley Motors has announced investment in its Middle East operations, which posted growth of 3% in 2011. The US$9mn investment will be used to increase the brand's...
2012-02-01Industry / Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe remains one of the less attractive auto markets within Sub-Saharan Africa at the present time, reflecting the still-difficult economic and political backdrop within the country....
2012-01-31Industry / France
Plastic Omnium's 29.9% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in revenue, to EUR4.2bn (US$5.5bn), during 2011 comes on the back of an already strong 32% y-o-y growth in 2010 and mainly highlights the success of its emerging market strategy, its focus on catering to increasing demand for lightweight parts and its success in attaining growth through new acquisitions.
2012-02-01Industry / Italy
The week-long nationwide truck strike in Italy that crippled autos production at all of Fiat's five domestic plants is likely to affect Italy's attempts to retain autos investments...
2012-01-30Industry
New commercial vehicle sales in the EU outperformed BMI's expectation of 7.6% year-on-year (y-o-y) growth during 2011 by posting a 9.9% y-o-y increase, to nearly 1.94mn units, according...
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