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SEAT records operating profit one year ahead of schedule(04/04/2008)
Spanish brand SEAT has recorded an operating profit of 44 million Euros in 2007, according to Spanish accounting standards. The result represents an improvement of 136 million Euros on 2006. At the same time, profit after tax was 170 million Euros, which represents an improvement of 218.8 million Euros on 2006. Operating income was 5,971 million Euros, 1.5 percent up on 2006 (5,880 million Euros). Expenditure on Research & Development, investments in new products, improved processes and p... [more]
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| Australian Car Sales Will Drop 13% in 2009, Industry Group Says (Bloomberg)Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Australian sales of cars and trucks will fall 13 percent this year as the global financial crisis erodes domestic demand for vehicles, according to an industry group. |
| US car sales hit 17-year low (Daily Telegraph)US car sales crashed again in December as the industry posted its worst year since 1992 and the Detroit Three saw their annual share of their home market slip beneath 50 per cent for the first time. |
| US car makers sink to 16year sales low (Daily Telegraph)The US car industry had its worst year since 1992 with December sales falling by more than a third underlining the dire state of consumer confidence in the world's largest economy. |
| Car sales plunge heralding bleak 2009 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) U.S. auto sales plunged by 36 percent in December led by outsized declines at Chrysler LLC, Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) and Toyota Motor Corp(7203.T) as the battered industry closed out its weakest year since 1992 in its largest single market. |
| US car sales crash in 2008 (News 24 South Africa)US car sales have crashed again in December as the industry posts its worst year since 1992. |
| Car sales plunge, heralding bleak 2009 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Major automakers reported U.S. sales in December that plunged by more than a third, closing out the weakest year for the battered industry in over a decade and a half in its largest single market. |
| Double-digit overseas car sales herald bleak 2009 (The Globe and Mail)PARIS — France and Japan posted steep falls in December car sales on Monday, adding to a swathe of depressing data from an industry bearing the brunt of wrecked consumer confidence, as analysts and a trade body forecast further pain in 2009. |
| U.S. December Auto Sales Dive 36%, Drag Industry to 16-Year Low (Bloomberg)Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. auto sales plunged 36 percent in December, dragging the industry’s volume in 2008 to a 16-year low as the recession ravaged demand. |
| Automakers fear new normal of lower sales in U.S. (International Herald Tribune)The collapse of the U.S. new-car market dragged on in December, raising questions of whether the auto industry will ever again have sales levels that it took for granted just a few years ago. |
| Economic meltdown, credit freeze make '08 a car sales year to forget (Detroit Free Press)With a global economic collapse ensnaring the housing, credit and financial markets, millions of U.S. consumers who would normally buy a new car and truck decided to save their money last year. That made 2008 the worst year for new car and truck sales since 1992. |
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