2023-11-07 04:20:39
There will now be more secrets between Renault and Nissan. Employees of the French car manufacturer have been called on to stop sharing their files and data with Japanese manufacturers Nissan and Mitsubishi from Monday. A further step in the softening of their alliance. “The Renault Nissan alliance ends on November 6. So from this date, no more communication with Nissan,” it is indicated in an internal email from the management of a department.
Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi “will now act independently and as competitors”, “no information can no longer be exchanged, with the exception of strictly supervised cases”, it is specified in another email, from the training service at one of Renault’s sites. This decision is part of the reorganization of the Renault-Nissan Alliance – to which Mitsubishi has belonged since 2016 – announced at the start of the year and intended to be less fusional and more egalitarian.
Concretely, the companies have concluded a new 15-year agreement according to which they will have a “cross-shareholding of 15%”, whereas previously Renault held 43.4% of Nissan. They also announced the end of their joint purchasing center, a drastic change compared to its old version, where it occupied a fundamental place.
Worried unions
According to a source close to the matter, who confirms the cessation of shared libraries and data between the two manufacturers, this step constitutes the logical continuation of the reduction of Renault’s participation in Nissan, as required by anti-trust laws. “We have always been competitors on the market, this word of concurrence is not new,” said the same source, tempering the emails. “We are heading towards a new chapter for the Alliance, but which does not have the same form,” she added, rejecting the term “divorce” brandished by worried unions.
“We’re not going to hide it, this is a divorce that’s been recorded, it’s an open secret,” said Fabien Gloaguen, Renault FO union representative in Sandouville. “We are not here to judge Renault’s strategy,” he continued, but the evolution of the Alliance “lacks clarity”. The trade unionist is particularly worried regarding the “uncertainty” which hovers around the future of the 1,400 employees working at the common purchasing center or in the French Renault factories producing Nissan cars, among others, such as in Maubeuge, Batilly or Sandouville once more.
Contacted, the group indicated that no employee of the purchasing center would be made redundant and that “the reorganization is underway”. He reaffirmed that the vehicles whose construction Nissan has entrusted to Renault will continue to be manufactured in its French factories, and that the manufacturers will continue to exchange data on their joint projects.
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