Renault seizes 30% market share in Morocco and benefits France
Renault has achieved a market share of 30.3%, up 15.9% over the same period in 2011 selling 3,178 vehicles in July . The group, which markets the Renault and Dacia brands,reached a combined market share of 36.6% in late July.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Renault-seizes-...
There were 16,381 Dacia vehicles sold since the beginning of the year, which holds the first place car sales in Morocco with 20.8% market share. The low cost Dacia car Lodgy, manufactured in the new Renault plant in Tangiers, sell very well in France. On July alone, 2,300 of them were sold in France and 6,000 since the launch of the model at the Geneva show in early March 2012.
The French car industry owes a debt of gratitude to the new Renault plant in Tangiers, which, according to
Renault, gave work to France, Jeune Afrique reported.
Indeed, the Dacia brand, owned by the French group, has doubled its sales last month while the French car market was down 7%. Dacia has now reached over a third of cars sold by Renault in France, while the volume sold by Renault as a whole has meanwhile dropped 27% since January.
"For Renault, it was not possible to manufacture low-cost vehicles in France. Renault Tanger has given work to France. To say otherwise is disrespectful to the French engineers who participated in the project for three years! ", Said Tunç Basegmez, the Moroccan plant manager to Jeune Afrique in March, responding to criticism from French politicians taking offence at what they saw as a "relocation".
This means that the French minister of "productive recovery" Arnaud Montebourg should read the figures achieved before requesting a relocation that would begin by ruining French industry.
The French car industry owes a debt of gratitude to the new Renault plant in Tangiers, which, according to
Renault, gave work to France, Jeune Afrique reported.
Indeed, the Dacia brand, owned by the French group, has doubled its sales last month while the French car market was down 7%. Dacia has now reached over a third of cars sold by Renault in France, while the volume sold by Renault as a whole has meanwhile dropped 27% since January.
"For Renault, it was not possible to manufacture low-cost vehicles in France. Renault Tanger has given work to France. To say otherwise is disrespectful to the French engineers who participated in the project for three years! ", Said Tunç Basegmez, the Moroccan plant manager to Jeune Afrique in March, responding to criticism from French politicians taking offence at what they saw as a "relocation".
This means that the French minister of "productive recovery" Arnaud Montebourg should read the figures achieved before requesting a relocation that would begin by ruining French industry.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Renault-seizes-...