The action of Renault heckled on the stock market, secret preparations for a possible Renault-Nissan divorce mentioned by the Financial Times .... Faced with the multiple reactions caused by the Carlos Ghosn affair, the two car manufacturers reacted, Tuesday 14 January, to reassure them about their union. "With the subjects we have on the table, things are going well. This alliance is very solid and very robust. It is anything but dead!", Declared in an interview published by the Belgian daily newspaper L'Echo Jean-Dominique Senard, president Renault and the council of the alliance with the two Japanese manufacturers.
Nissan "has no intention of dissolving" its ties to Renault and Mitsubishi Motors at all. "The alliance is the basis of Nissan's competitiveness. With the alliance, to generate long-term and profitable growth, Nissan will seek to continue to obtain win-win results" for the three companies, added the group.
"Win-win results"
The diamond brand lost nearly 3% on Monday on the Paris Stock Exchange. A decline due to concerns about the future of its partnership with Nissan after the red bullet criticism of Carlos Ghosn on the current state of the alliance he founded. The Financial Times said on Sunday that a complete separation of the engineering and production activities of the two members of the alliance would even be under consideration.
"What is written there has no connection with current reality. I wonder about the origin of this type
information. I am not sure of the benevolence of the origin of these ", replies Jean-Dominique Senard, who adds that we will see" much earlier, this year ", the first results of the new strategy of the alliance "on the implementation of projects and the credibility capacity of this alliance".
Nissan, in its press release, ensures that "the alliance is the source of competitiveness" of the group. "Through this alliance, to achieve sustainable and profitable growth, Nissan will seek to continue to produce win-win results for all member companies," added the automotive group.
With AFP and Reuters
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