Carlos Ghosn
Carlos Ghosn
Carlos Ghosn, KBEis a French-Lebanese-Brazilian businessman born in Porto Velho, Brazil, who is currently the Chairman and CEO of France-based Renault, and Chairman and CEO of Japan-based Nissan. From June 2013 to June 2016, Ghosn was Chairman of Russia-based automobile manufacturer AvtoVAZ. Ghosn is also Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the strategic partnership overseeing Nissan and Renault through a unique cross-shareholding agreement. The Alliance, which includes AvtoVAZ, has held approximately 10% of the global market share from 2010...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth9 March 1954
CityPorto Velho, Brazil
CountryBrazil
We're going to be facing in 2006, 2007, I'd say at best stagnation. It's an industry where you have to move all the time. You have to question yourself all the time. You have to challenge the way you're doing business all the time.
Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.
We think there is a real threat that logically we could be brought to the conclusion that the best investment is not in Sunderland, but maybe somewhere on the (European) continent,
If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
Our goal is to move as many people as possible to the new location. Fifty percent of current employees would be the best possible result.
The board of Nissan decided to relocate our North American headquarters, and we're coming to Tennessee,
The bonanza that existed, where you only had two or three automakers with high prices, isn't going to come back,
The costs of doing business in Southern California are much higher than the costs of doing business in Tennessee.
I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
not for the good of Renault, but for the good of Nissan.
At the same time Nissan did the Dakar Rally for a couple of years but the results were not up to the expectations that I wanted from the team. We pulled out.
Even though hybrids are a solution, they're not the solution.
We want to offer all kinds of technology. I'm trying to tell the team, the Nissan team, don't make the choice for the consumer. Let them choose between the palette of technologies we can offer.
What we are foreseeing is the situation of the market is not going to be fundamentally different than in 2004,