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The real fake acquisition of FCA by PSA

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Following an article in Automotive News Europe, we read that the merger between equals between PSA and FCA was in fact an acquisition of the latter by the former. On closer inspection, this theory is very fragile and, although the review of the deal negotiated in August was a way of making PSA's point of view prevail, the fiction of a merger between equals is for the moment safe.
 
Automotive News Europe's correspondent in Italy, Andrea Malan, has had some success in tracking down in the documents published on the PSA and FCA websites - and, in particular, in the "prospectus" announcing how Stellantis is to be formed - the paragraph which states that, for accounting reasons, it is, even in the case of a merger between equals, necessary to designate a buyer and an acquirer. The article suggests that the fact that, in order to meet this requirement, the choice was made to consider that it was PSA that acquired FCA and not the other way round is not accidental. 
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La vraie fausse acquisition de FCA par PSA

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Suite à un article dans Automotive News Europe, on a pu lire que la fusion entre égaux entre PSA et FCA était en fait une acquisition du second par le premier. A y regarder de plus près, cette thèse est bien fragile et, si la révision du deal qui s’est négociée en août a bien été une manière de faire prévaloir le point de vue de PSA, la fiction de la fusion entre égaux est pour l’instant sauve. read more

Le duo Delbos-Senard face aux agences de notation

Serving another type of client
As expected, the major rating agencies downgraded Renault's credit rating this week and posted lower price targets. Renault's management obviously prefers to play the truth speech that will mobilize the teams rather than tell the markets and analysts what they would like to hear.
 
On Tuesday, the rating agency Moody's downgraded its long-term credit rating on Renault from Baa3 to Ba1, with a stable outlook. 
 
It sanctions the group's poor performance for 2019 announced the previous week: in the red in 2019, for the first time since 2009, Renault, which saw its sales and profitability fall, did not want to be reassuring for 2020 by envisaging a further drop in its profitability. This is the reason for the downgrading of Moody's rating, which indicates :
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Le duo Delbos-Senard face aux agences de notation

Serving another type of client
Comme on pouvait le prévoir les grandes agences de notation ont dégradé cette semaine la note de la dette Renault et affiché des objectifs de cours en baisse. Les dirigeants de Renault préfèrent d'évidence jouer le discours de vérité qui mobilisera les équipes plutôt que de raconter aux marchés et analystes ce qu'ils aimeraient entendre.

Mardi, l’agence de notation Moody’s a rétrogradé de Baa3 à Ba1 sa note de crédit à long terme sur Renault, avec une perspective stable.   read more

Renault va mal et compte sur l’Alliance, Nissan va très mal et n’en parle pas

How long have we been married for? (Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)
Avant que ne soient communiqués les résultats financiers de 2019 de Renault vendredi, avait eu lieu à Yokohama la veille la présentation des résultats de Nissan pour l’avant dernier trimestre de l’année fiscale japonaise et donc pour les neuf premiers mois .
Les dirigeants de Nissan en ont profité pour revoir à la baisse leurs prévisions de chiffre d’affaires et de profits pour l’exercice en précisant que lesdites prévisions ne tenaient pas compte des effets probables du coronavirus.
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Renault is doing badly and counts on the Alliance. Nissan is doing very badly and doesn't talk about it.

How long have we been married for? (Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)
Prior to the release of Renault's 2019 financial results on Friday, the presentation of Nissan's results for the third quarter of the Japanese fiscal year, and thus for the first nine months, took place in Yokohama the day before.
 
Nissan executives took the opportunity to revise downwards their revenue and profit forecasts for the year, stating that these forecasts did not take into account the probable effects of the coronavirus.
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FCA 2019 Results: making short-termism attractive

Handsome is not enough
FCA's results are nothing new: North America and the two flagship brands, RAM and Jeep, are doing well.
The rest is just about surviving and is tending to deteriorate without any serious attempt to stop this. Everything has been going on since 2014 as if the roadmap were that of keeping the cash machine running in the United States and waiting for the future ally to either clean up the mess, or reinvest or offer solutions to revive brands and business in the regions that have been neglected.
 
The case of Europe is emblematic in this respect. A.-G. Verdevoye sums up the situation well in the French weekly newspaper Challenges:
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Renault-PSA : l’un est intercontinentalisé, l’autre pas

Renault dans le rouge en France. Mais ailleurs?

Les résultats commerciaux des deux français ont été publiés la semaine dernière et, derrière l’homologie de façade que représentent la proximité des volumes (3,75 millions pour Renault et 3,48 millions pour PSA) et leurs baisses (- 3,4% pour Renault et -10% pour PSA), les chiffres viennent souligner les profondes différences des deux constructeurs. read more

Renault-PSA: one is intercontinental, the other is not.

Renault dans le rouge en France. Mais ailleurs?

The commercial results of the two French carmakers were published last week and, behind the facade homology represented by the similarity of volumes (3.75 million for Renault and 3.48 million for PSA) and their decline (-3.4% for Renault and -10% for PSA), the figures underline the significant differences between the two manufacturers.
 
Thus, seen from France, one would get the impression that PSA is outperforming Renault. In most segments except B, Renault products are barely outperforming Peugeot products and the latter obviously give PSA a "pricing power" that Renault is struggling to conquer. The financial results corresponding to the commercial results published last week are likely to confirm this in February.
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2020: the year the EV must take off

Not queuing for take off

The weekly column by Bernard Jullien is also on www.autoactu.com.

In their report submitted in February 2019, Xavier Mosquet and Patrick Pelata considered that it was urgent, in order to "make France a leader in low-emission vehicles", to "create strong momentum to develop the electrified vehicle market": In the light of the emission curves for 2017 and 2018 and knowing the CAFE targets defined by the EU for 2020 and 2021, the roughly 30,000 battery EVs and 14,500 rechargeable hybrids registered in France in 2018 were not enough and it was essential, in their opinion, that from 2019 onwards, both firms and public authorities should be strongly mobilised.
 
At the end of 2019, in terms of registration figures, the effect is not very significant since, at the end of December, electric vehicles accounted for 42,800 (1.9% market share) and rechargeable hybrids for 18,600 (0.81%): manufacturers have waited until 2020 to launch their offers so that their EV registrations - which will double this year and then be affected in 2021 by a coefficient of 1.67 and in 2022 by 1.33 - will effectively take them out of the red zone in which de-dieselisation has put them.
 
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2020 : l’année où l’électrique doit décoller

Not queuing for take off
 
Dans leur rapport remis en février 2019Xavier Mosquet et Patrick Pelata considéraient qu’il était urgent pour "faire de la France un pays leader des véhicules à faible émission" de "créer un momentum fort pour développer le marché des véhicules électrifiés" : devant les courbes d’évolution des émissions en 2017 et 2018 et connaissant les cibles CAFE définies par l’UE pour 2020 et 2021, les quelques 30 000 VP électriques à batterie et 14 500 hybrides rechargeables immatriculés en France en 2018 étaient insuffisants et il était essentiel, de leur  point de vue, que dès 2019, la mobilisation soit forte côté entreprises comme côté pouvoirs publics.
 
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Et si Bruno Le Maire s’inspirait de Donald Trump…

In the port of Tanger Med, low-cost Renault await...

Autoactu publiait vendredi deux articles qui, involontairement, se renvoyaient l’un à l’autre.
 
L’un, signé de Laurent Bodin, traitait du sort de l’usine terminale PSA de Mulhouse qui a vu partir la production du nouveau 2008 vers l’Espagne en vertu de la doctrine bien connue désormais selon laquelle les sites français n’ont pas à assembler de véhicules des segments A et B, fussent-ils des SUV. 
L’autre, signé de Bertrand Rakoto, analysait le volet automobile du nouvel accord de libre-échange entre les Etats-Unis, le Canada et le Mexique et les contraintes qu’il impose aux constructeurs pour limiter la mise en concurrence entre les pays à hauts salaires et les pays à bas salaires et les délocalisations vers le Mexique. 
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What if Bruno Le Maire was inspired by Donald Trump...

In the port of Tanger Med, low-cost Renault await...

The weekly column by Bernard Jullien is also on www.autoactu.com.

Last Friday Autoactu released two articles that unintentionally referred to each other.
 
One, signed by Laurent Bodin, dealt with the fate of PSA's Mulhouse assembly plant, which saw the production of the new 2008 model leave for Spain under the now well-known doctrine that French sites should not assemble vehicles from segments A and B, even if they are SUVs.
The other, signed by Bertrand Rakoto, analysed the automobile component of the new free trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico and the constraints it imposes on manufacturers to limit competition between high-wage and low-wage countries and relocation to Mexico.
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L’industrie automobile allemande : un compromis en péril

France's team knocked out. And in the end, Germany wins?

Alors que l’industrie automobile française va, ce lundi, tenter de comprendre ce qui l’attend et tenter de faire pression pour que tous les soutiens lui soient apportés, les nouvelles de nos voisins allemands convergent pour indiquer que les années à venir vont être difficiles pour les constructeurs comme pour les équipementiers.
 
Après que Audi ait annoncé  en début de semaine dernière une réduction d’effectifs de 9500 personnes d’ici à 2025, c’est Daimler qui annonçait en fin de semaine la suppression de 10 000 emplois d’ici à 2022. Continental avait, il y a quelques semaines, annoncé de même un plan de réduction de ses effectifs de 20 000 (sur un total de 244 000 personnes) dont 7000 en Allemagne. "Au total, indique RFI, ces derniers mois les principaux constructeurs et équipementiers automobiles ont programmé près de 30 000 suppressions d'emplois" .
 
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The German car industry: the social compromise at risk?

France's team knocked out. And in the end, Germany wins?
While the French automotive industry is going, this Monday, to try to understand what awaits it and try to put pressure to receive all the support it needs, news from our German neighbours converge to indicate that the coming years will be difficult for both automakers and equipment manufacturers.
 
 After Audi announced early last week that it would reduce its workforce by 9,500 by 2025, Daimler announced on the weekend that it would cut 10,000 jobs by 2022. A few weeks ago, Continental also announced a plan to reduce its workforce by 20,000 (out of a total of 244,000 people), including 7,000 in Germany. "In total," says RFI, "in recent months, the main car manufacturers and equipment manufacturers have planned nearly 30,000 job cuts.
 
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VW's imperialist enterprise in the media sphere

Dieselgate : and the winner is...

This November, Volkswagen's offensive in the electrical vehicle resulted in an impressive series of announcements and statements by the group's top executives, who seem to want to convince everyone that the inevitable move towards battery-powered electric vehicles is underway and that Volkswagen is the most ready of all manufacturers to lead this change.
 
There is undoubtedly a "Coué method" dimension here that leads managers, afraid of the risks they take, to want to convince themselves, their teams and customers that the battery-powered EV is the right choice.
Above all, there is obviously a very political will to impose a global standard and to create competitive rules of the game for the automotive industry, which will be all the easier for Volkswagen to respect as they will have been largely designed around its convictions and proposals.
 
One of the signs of this political work was given when Angela Merkel, at the beginning of the month, honoured the invitation of the group's leaders to attend the launch of the ID3 assemby plant at the Zwickau plant in eastern Saxony.
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L’entreprise impériale de Volkswagen dans l’espace médiatique

Dieselgate : and the winner is...

En ce mois de novembre, l’offensive électrique de Volkswagen se traduit par une impressionnante série d’annonces et de déclarations des dirigeants du groupe qui semblent vouloir convaincre chacun que l’inéluctable marche vers le véhicule électrique à batterie est en cours et que c’est Volkswagen qui, parmi tous les constructeurs, est le plus prêt à conduire cette mutation.
 
Il y a sans doute là une dimension "méthode Coué" qui conduit les dirigeants effrayés par les risques qu’ils prennent à vouloir se convaincre, convaincre leurs équipes et convaincre les clientèles que l’électrique à batterie est le bon choix.
Il y a surtout d’évidence une volonté très politique d’imposer un standard mondial et de fabriquer, pour l’industrie automobile, des règles du jeu concurrentiel qui seront d’autant plus facile à respecter pour Volkswagen qu’elles auront été en large partie conçues autour de ses convictions et propositions.
 
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Toyota et Honda : différents mais solides

Looks like a no-deal

En ce mois de novembre, nous parviennent les résultats financiers des constructeurs japonais pour le premier semestre de leur exercice qui se clôt fin mars. En attendant ceux de Nissan qui ne seront rendus publics que cette semaine, on peut se pencher sur ceux de Toyota et Honda qui révèlent d’ores et déjà l’inégale exposition des uns et des autres au reflux de la demande mondiale qui se précise.
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Toyota et Honda : different but strong

Looks like a no-deal
This November, we receive the financial results of Japanese automakers for the first half of their fiscal year, which ends at the end of March. Awaiting of Nissan, which will only be made public this week, we can look at those of Toyota and Honda, which already reveal the unequal exposure of Japanese carmakers to the decline in global demand that is now taking shape.
 
From this point of view, Toyota impresses by posting increasing volumes, sales and results.
Toyota sold 4.64 million vehicles from April to September, 220,000 more than last year. Its turnover increased by 600 billion yen (almost 5 billion euros), i.e. by 4%, and its operating income by 140 billion yen (1.16 billion euros, +11%). Its operating margin was 8.6% of turnover for the first half of the previous year, compared to 9.2% for the first six months of 2020.
 
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