Nissan showed the worst in 20 years, the financial results for the financial year and reduces the power across the globe. In particular, as expected, “b”, in the framework of the new strategy of the company, the Russian market will leave the budget brand Datsun, collected at AVTOVAZ on the basis of Lada models. In addition to Russia, the restructuring plan will affect other production: will be closed to the Nissan plants in Spain and Indonesia.Nissan under the new development strategy for the years 2020-2023 refuse from the production budget of the Datsun brand in Russia. “We will focus on the production of the main models announced in the Nissan.— At the end of 2023 discontinue production of older models. We will stop production of Datsun in Russia. Thereby reduce the number of models in our portfolio from 69 to less than 55” (quoted by RBC).Nissan Motor has reported a net loss of ¥671,2 billion ($6.2 billion) in the fiscal year that ended in March 2020, against a profit of ¥319,1 billion ($2.96 billion). This is worse than the result during the crisis of 2008-2009, when the company showed a net loss of ¥233 billion, and comparable with the results of the 1999 fiscal year in which Nissan has lost ¥684 billion against the background of the restructuring plan initiated by the former head of the automaker Carlos Ghosn. Nissan did not give any predictions on income for the current year. “The future remains unclear, and predicting it is extremely difficult,” said Nissan’s CEO Makoto Uchida.
This is the first annual results of Nissan since the departure of the former company’s head Carlos Ghosn in November 2018.Nissan in 1981 have already eliminated the Datsun for the sake of promoting their own brand, but in 2013, Carlos Ghosn, introduced in India new car under this brand. Datsun in 2014 released cars in India, Indonesia, Russia and are well represented in South Africa. In March 2020 became aware of the fact that the company will stop making cars in Indonesia, consolidating its global production amid falling sales. The Datsun brand will completely leave this market.Production of Datsun in Russia at the AVTOVAZ platform Kalina (now there also is Granta). Models were developed individually for each market. In 2019 Japan’s Nikkei reported that the Datsun build — revived Mr. Ghosn brand in Togliatti will be phased out in 2020, which refutes the Russian office of Nissan.Also have Nissan in Russia is the St. Petersburg plant capacity of 100 thousand cars a year, which produces the Qashqai, X-Trail and Murano. Crossover Terrano gather together with the platform of Renault Duster. In 2019, the St. Petersburg plant Nissan reduced its production by 7.4%, to 52.3 thousand. A large part of the production comes from the Qashqai crossover, its production increased by 3% to 27.3 thousand cars, reports “AUTOSTAT” with reference to company data. Nissan’s sales last year fell 20%, to nearly 70 thousand cars.Nissan plans to move production��your pickup Navara in South Africa, and the van e-NV200 will be produced at the Renault plant in France. Will also be closed production in Indonesia. Makoto Uchida reported that manufacturing in Europe is concentrated in Britain, and production from Indonesia will travel to Thailand on the background of plans to reduce global production by 20%, according to AP.Olga Nikitina
