Company HQ: Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Core activity: Road car manufacturer
Employees worldwide: 122,615
Active markets: 118

The Renault Group designs, develops, manufactures and sells passenger cars and light commercial vehicles under the Renault, Dacia and Renault Samsung Motors brands. Renault is also linked by cross-shareholdings to Nissan via the Renault-Nissan Alliance, established in March 1999.

Renault, France’s number one car brand, relies on more than 110 years of innovation to bring customers high- quality, carbon-efficient vehicles, with ingenious, attractive, accessible and pioneering products and services.

Renault’s new baseline, “Drive the Change”, expresses the company’s ambition to lead the way in sustainable mobility. Along with its partner Nissan, Renault is targeting world leadership in the mass marketing of zero-emission vehicles. Since 2011 Renault has launched a zero-emission range with three electric vehicles and plans to launch a fourth model by the end of 2012.

The Renault group reported a net revenue of ˆ38,971 million (car sales and financing) and sold 2,722,062 vehicles in 2011, a new sales record for the Renault Group, representing an increase of 3,7% over 2010.

Throughout its history, Renault has incorporated motorsport into its global marketing strategy. With a powerful image and prestige value, motorsport, and especially Formula 1, has strengthened the brand in traditional markets while increasing visibility in emerging ones. The sport has also proven to be an effective testing ground for road car products, with innovative solutions to downsizing, reliability and electric technology all proven on track.

Renault Sport F1 is the sporting division created to supply engines to carefully selected partners by developing and testing high-performance F1 engines. Since 1977, Renault has won ten Constructors’ World Titles and nine Drivers’ World Titles.

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