RESHORING CASE

Renault (Spa)

Company details
Code: 
RenaultSPA
Company name: 
Renault
Group name: 
Renault-Nissan BV
Company country: 
France
Group home country: 
Netherlands
Number of employees: 
117000
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C29 - Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
03/03/2014
Starting implementation date: 
May, 2014
End of Implementation : 
November, 2015
Reshored to: 
France
Location of affected unit(s): 
Sandouville
Location code: 
FR232
Reshored business function: 
Production
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Partial
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Estimated job gains: 
150
Reasons for reshoring: 
Untapped production capacity
Reshoring ERM database code: 
renault-14
Case narrative: 

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 in 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: 

L'usine nouvelle, 03/03/2014
Tendance ouest, 19/03/2014

Offshoring details
Offshoring date: 
1999
Offshoring location: 
Spain
Offshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Offshoring entry mode: 
Joint venture
Reason for offshoring: 
Merger and Acquisition