Type
Reshoring
Country
France
Reshoring from
United Kingdom
Reshored business function
Production
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sandouville
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture For Transport Equipment
Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers
29 - Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers

150 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
3 April 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 May 2014
Foreseen end date
1 November 2015

Description

Renault has relocated the production of Trafic from the Opel plant in Lutton (UK) and Nissan in Barcelona (Spain) to Sandouville. The aim is to save this plant, where production volumes have reduced from 105,000 units six years ago to only 25,000 cars in 2013. The group has invested €230 million in its plant in Sandouville, and intends to move its production from high-end vehicles to commercial ones by mid-2015 It is reported that in addition to the announced job creation plan, the company will call back 400 employees that were previously employed to other plants within the Renault group. In January 2013, Renault announced plans to cut about 7,500 jobs within the group in France. Renault–Nissan Alliance is a Franco-Japanese strategic partnership based in Amsterdam and founded in 1999.  


Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2014), Renault, Reshoring in France, factsheet number 243, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/243.