Automobile Dacia hires 3,000 people

Automobile Dacia will hire 3,000 people in the assembly plant and 600 people with college education in the administrative departments, in order to reach the 400,000-car production target for 2009, which has been revised from 350,000 units.
“Currently, we have 13,000 staff, but as our performance improves, we will need to hire more people. For 2008 alone, we plan to hire around 3,000 new people with a high-school diploma and over 600 with higher education,” said Adrian Lupulescu, human resources manager at Automobile Dacia. The 600 staff with higher education will mainly be employed in the administrative departments.
This will be the company’s biggest recruitment campaign, after undergoing a restructuring process in the 1999 – 2003 period, which entailed reducing the personnel, from more than 27,000 people to around 13,000. Dacia officials said most of the staff stayed on the industrial platform in Mioveni, being hired by direct suppliers of the producer. As part of its hiring campaign, Automobile Dacia is monitoring the available workforce in Arges county, and has started several recruitment-related operations, such as closing contracts with specialised companies, attending specialised job fairs, sticking job ads on buses which carry the company’s staff, and distributing flyers throughout the country.
Dacia’ worldwide sales climbed by 15.3% in the first 11 months of the year, to 207,890 cars, from 180,271 units in the same period of last year, while the number of vehicles sold by the Renault group went up by 1.3%, to 2,279 millions.
The number of cars sold by Dacia went up by 16.4%, to 196,918 units, while sales of LCV models dropped by 0.9%, to 10,972 units, reads a Renault release.
In November, Dacia’s total sales climbed by 42%, to 22,400 cars, from 15,773 units the same month last year.
The number of cars sold by Dacia went up by 44.9% last month, to 21,353 units, while LCV sales went up by 1.43%, to 1,047 units.
On the European market, France included, Dacia sales saw a 107.2% increase in November, due to the success of the Logan sedan and MCV models.
The Logan model has also been successful in Brazil and Argentina, with over 12,000 units sold since its launch there, in July.
Renault’s market share in Romania stood at 38.4% in November, at 24.9% in France, 15.2% in Turkey, and at 10.6% in Spain and the Canary Islands.
On a group level, sales increased by 1.3% in the first 11 months of the year, to 2.279 million cars, against a 15.5% increase, to 214,028 units in November.
The Renault brands contributed 14.32% to the group’s rise seen last month, Dacia saw a 42% rise, while Renault Samsung Motors dropped 10.1%.
In the first 11 months, the group’s sales dropped by 5% in Europe, France included, but rose in the rest of the regions, by percentages ranging from 8.6% in the Asia-Africa region to 32.7% in the Americas.