It is in rance that happens and not elsewhere

A market or the supply o the rench army trucks just be awarded to a consortium in ol ing a rench mechanic and an Italian manu acturer o industrial ehicles o er Renault Trucks de ense, Renault Trucks di ision.

In this case, the company which I preside has exercised a right o appeal, which had resulted in a series o comments warning against the temptation o protectionism counter-producti e and inappropriate.

Unwelcome Yes, because Renault Trucks would not be a rench company as some obser ers ha e suggested. I can accept to lose a market to a oreign competitor but I cannot accept that the reality is thus tra estie.

Renault Trucks SAS is a rench company, heiress o Renault and its domestic industrial ehicles Sa iem on the one hand, the lyonnais Berliet on the other hand. Two names were and still are the reputation o the rench automoti e industry in the world, excuse the little! Renault Trucks has roots more than centenarians to Billancourt and énissieux.

Yes, the owner o the rench Renault Trucks is Swedish. It is AB ol o or shareholder Renault SA, itsel controlled by the rench State! This is a much mundane thing in our global economy and I am not sure that Nissan, or example, eels less Japanese since its entry into the alliance alongside Renault! inally, the mark that Renault Trucks de ends on the markets and which adorns its ehicles since 1978 "Renault". Should produce other certi icates o national identity

Renault Trucks employs 14,000 people in the world, including 10,000 in rance. A detail isibly escaped some commentators who ha e reduced the company to its only de ence di ision. The production o the company is ensured in industrial sites to scale in Normandy, Rhone-Alpes, in the Limousin. Bresse in Ain plant hosts an acti ity once in Spain construction ehicle Assembly. Renault Trucks is the largest pri ate employer on all territories where it is established, a reality that measure many local elected o icials and worth us their support. Renault Trucks is ranked among the 30 irst rench exporters and could achie e a turno er o EUR 3 billion purchasing the territory be ore the crisis. We thought, wrongly, it seems recognize us in the "made in rance" that recently de ended the pre ious Minister o industry.

More than 1,000 engineers in research and de elopment are o Lyon a recognized centre o excellence in the ield o medium ehicles tonnage and prepare electrical and hybrid tomorrow's ehicles. Renault Trucks is the pillar o the pole o competiti eness Lyon Urban Truck & Bus which brings together SMEs, laboratories, and major groups on structuring research projects on the systems o urban transport o goods and persons. It is in rance that happens and not elsewhere.

It is in rance that we in ested EUR 800 million in our products and our actories o er the past three years: we ha e the plant o Blain ille-sur-Orne second European centre or the manu acture o truck cabins; We just pro ide énissieux o the State o the art stamping acility; We installed an Assembly or the hybrid ehicle assembly line in Bresse. Renault Trucks spends 5.5 o its turno er in R & D. Despite the crisis is ar rom o er or our sector, this e ort has been supported. Belie e me: it is arguing or the assets o the rance and the quality o the work we do there that could con ince the amous Swedish shareholder o authorizing us to make these in estments.

Renault Trucks would be not rench and not enough strategic trucks, I ha e read yet. It is probably in error state had included us in its automoti e stimulus package and helped us to introduce partial unemployment measures to a oid job losses. An error also that the assignment o the premium o de elopment o the territory to anchor skills and jobs on our site Norman. It is probably coincidence that we are engaged in the States General o the industry, in the plat orm or automoti e (P A), we apply the law on the modernisation o the economy (LME) and that we are signatories o charters or better reporting between donors o order and subcontractors under the aegis o the State. inally, it is likely an absent-mindedness makes us pay tax on corporations in rance!

I wish that there be no misunderstanding on this coup de gueule": this is not a bad loser expressed but the leader o a business which means that its employees, its shareholders, their work and their e orts are respected.