The Alliance of Peugeot Citroën agreed to form a new alliance with General Motors focusing on $ 2 billion annual savings for five years, representatives of GM today said.
“This partnership gives great opportunities for our two companies,” GM Dan Dan Aikerson, GM Director. “The alliance of interaction, in addition to our independent plans, the GM position for long -term stable profitability in Europe”.
General Motors will take 7 percent of Peugeot shares as part of the production of shares by a French automotive industry, and these two companies will unite scientific research, vehicles and technology platforms and technology. The agreement was announced after the European markets closed.
The GM statement states that the alliance will be built around two main elements:
• exchange of car platforms, components and modules.
• joint creation of global procurement of enterprises for the search for goods, components and other goods and services from suppliers with a combined annual purchase of about $ 125 billion.
“Each company will continue to sell its vehicles independently and on a competitive basis,” the statement said.
