• Toyota and Suzuki consider collaborations

    • March 20, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Suzuki Motor Corporation (Suzuki) announced its agreement to begin considering concrete collaboration in new fields. Toyota and Suzuki have been considering the concrete details of such collaboration since having concluded a memorandum of understanding toward business partnership on February 6, 2017. Toyota and Suzuki, in addition to bringing together Toyota’s [...]
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  • JD.com and Michelin China expand partnership

    • March 20, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Michelin China is expanding its partnership with China’s largest retailer JD.com through the launch of a first-party flagship store on the JD platform. The new partnership will also see the global tire manufacturer and e-commerce giant integrate its offline auto service networks. Consumers who buy Michelin tires on JD.com will be given priority to choose [...]
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  • IBIS ME 2019 hailed a huge triumph

    • March 19, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: IBIS News
    The sixth IBIS Middle East conference met new heights of success in Dubai on 12 and 13 March by bringing together an impressive group of automotive crash repair industry leaders from across the Gulf countries. The event gave them the unique opportunity to network, make new contacts and share experiences with each other – something [...]
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  • Professor Cox to speak at IBIS Ireland

    • March 19, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Categories: Content Updates, IBIS News
    Professor Michael Cox, director of LSE IDEAS and emeritus professor of international relations, London School of Economics, will be joining the speaker line-up at IBIS Ireland 2019. Professor Cox helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre in 2004 and expanded it into IDEAS, a foreign policy centre based at the London School of Economics, which [...]
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  • Ford announces European job cuts

    • March 18, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Ford is planning to cut up to 5,000 jobs in Germany in an effort to turn around its European business. Some UK jobs will also be lost as part of the strategy. Ford, which employs 53,000 people in the Europe, including 24,000 in Germany and 12,000 in the UK, reported losses of $400m in 2018. [...]
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