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Xavier Caroen

French Carmakers | | Unlike Move Leading to Dissimilar Margin Growth Potential

More Europe vs. more emerging markets? Whereas years ago, Renault and PSA were quite comparable, with high direct industrial and sales exposure to Europe and a similar product positioning, their strategies started to diverge when Renault further strengthened its presence in Russia through Avtovaz, and when PSA opportunistically bought Opel from GM to reinforce its already significant exposure to the European market. The group's exposure to Europe should be favorable in 2018-19, but not so much thereafter after.
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Peugeot SA

Peugeot is an automobile manufacturer (cars and light commercial vehicles), supported by two brands: Peugeot and Citroen. Co.'s activities are divided into four main segments: Automobile (Co. designs, manufactures and markets passenger cars and light commercial vehicles under Peugeot and Citroen brands), Finance (Co. provides retail and wholesale financing to customers and dealer networks), Automotive equipment (Co. produces Interior Systems, Automotive Seating, Automotive Exteriors and Emissions Control Technologies) and Other businesses (Co. produces scooters).

Renault SA

Renault is an automobile manufacturer. Co.'s activities have been organized into two main business sectors, in more than 120 countries: Automotive and Sales Financing. Co. designs, develops and sells passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. Following the acquisition of Romanian carmaker Dacia and Samsung Motors' operating assets in South Korea, Co. has three automotive brands: Renault, Dacia and Samsung. RCI Banque, Co.'s captive financing arm, finances sales of the Renault, Renault Samsung Motors (RSM) and Dacia brands, and, in Europe, the Nissan and Infiniti brands. In addition to these two activities, Co. has equity investments in the following two companies: Nissan and AVTOVAZ.

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