Renault Strategic Plan Said To Be “Risky” And “Underwhelming”. “The alliance with Renault also appears to be quite unstable” Renault’s long-term strategic plan to sacrifice sales in favor of profits failed to excite investors, who wondered why the elephant in the room, the future of the crucial alliance with Nissan, wasn’t addressed. New CEO Luca […]
Renault Nissan Rescue Plan Looks Like Short-term Spin. “It sounds like a weak solution, a bad compromise. It leaves a lot of room for future conflict. It seems to me that it risks weakening the identities of both brands” The Renault Nissan alliance has put existential power struggles between French and Japan on the backburner, […]
Renault-Nissan Tries To Tweak Current Deal. “The big disadvantage remains. It is a collaboration that is more complicated and slower to make decisions than a classic company” The Renault Nissan Mitsubishi alliance has been treading water for a couple years as the partners struggled to solve basic problems of ownership and direction. Could the French-Japanese […]
Will The Renault, Nissan Alliance Flourish Or Whither? “Renault is still without a leader. The new CEO Luca de Meo, hired from VW’s SEAT, is still on gardening leave and won’t take control until July” News is expected this week which will either cement the Renault-Nissan alliance for the foreseeable future, or send its French […]
Renault Shares Dive After Profit Warning. Investors Worry About Nissan, FCA, CO2 Complications. “That makes the synergies on offer via a merger with partner Nissan or rival Fiat imperative to stop the profit bleed” Renault shares dived more than 12% after the company cut its profit forecast for 2019 by 20% and investors worried that […]
Will PSA Group Sneak In And Buy FCA? “I can imagine FCA are in the background discussing with PSA already. PSA is looking for a partner, especially for entry into the U.S. It’s a good idea, but we’ll see” Speculation Renault and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will finally decide to merge reignited earlier this month, […]
After Initial Euphoria, Renault/FCA Merger Poses Big Questions. “Ultimately, it will take a decade or so to judge the true success or failure of this potential tie up” On day one, a merger between Renault of France and Italian-American Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) promised massive benefits with happy investors talking about huge cost savings and […]
Renault’s Plan To Merge With Nissan, FCA, Raises Doubts. “This idea is half-baked, politically almost impossible to deliver and even if achieved, the resulting company would be unmanageable” PSA Group of France was said to be interested in buying Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), then its compatriot Renault was reportedly not only about to seek a […]
Renault-Nissan Alliance Works Well, But Politics May Doom It. “Clearly Ghosn held the thing together with the strength of his personality but the alliance will have to find other ways to make it work” All the business evidence points to a successful future for the Renault-Nissan alliance after years of dynamic leadership from Carlos Ghosn, […]
Renault Shares Advance After News, Later Denied, On Merger. But Would Full Merger With Nissan Unlock Big Value? Renault shares zoomed after a Reuters report France might sell its 15 per cent stake to Nissan, but fell back a day later when the companies and the French government denied there were any such plans. The […]
