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A list of global Peugeot plants: Pages in category "Peugeot factories" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The companies last week unveiled plans to create a $50 billion group that would leapfrog Hyundai, General Motors, Ford and Honda to become the world's No.4 automaker, based on their combined 8.7 ...
The completion in 2010 of a €50 million investment in new model production facilities will leave the total covered factory area at 500,000 m 2. [1] By 2008 the area under cover had grown to more than 700,000 m 2, but this was to be reduced in order "to reduce fixed costs and optimize logistical efficiencies". In practice, the site is a large ...
Peugeot (UK: / ˈ p ɜː ʒ oʊ / ⓘ, US: / p (j) uː ˈ ʒ oʊ / ⓘ, French: ⓘ) is a French automobile brand owned by Stellantis. [3] [4] [5]The family business that preceded the current Peugeot companies was established in 1810, [6] making it the oldest car company in the world. [7]
When Carlos Tavares takes the wheel of a combined PSA and Fiat Chrysler this year he will quickly need to revive the carmaker's fortunes in China, rationalise a sprawling global empire and address ...
In the United Kingdom, Peugeot Motor Company PLC is a wholly owned United Kingdom subsidiary of PSA Peugeot Citroën that operates the Peugeot UK, Citroën UK, and DS Automobile brands. Peugeot UK's retail arm is Robins & Day which was part of Rootes Group before becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Peugeot Motor Company PLC in 1970.
Peugeot started manufacturing gear-boxes (transmissions) at their Mulhouse factory in 1962. The 1960s were a period of rapid expansion for Peugeot, with the market-place success of, in particular, their 204 enabling them to overtake Simca and Citroën in the domestic sales charts, which moved the manufacturer from fourth position to second in the French market.
Peugeot's origins as an automaker were in the Franche-Comté region, to the west of Belfort and Alsace, and a short distance to the north of the Swiss frontier. The Sochaux plant, opened for the manufacture of trucks in 1912, was therefore located in a region where the Peugeot family was already a significant industrial force, though the town of Sochaux itself had till that point ...