PSA-Opel merger job loss fears

French car maker PSA Groupe, owners of Peugeot and Citroën, is in advanced talks to buy General Motors’ lossmaking European Opel-Vauxhall subsidiary — leading to fears of widespread job losses

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PSA/OPEL EUROPEAN CAR PLANTS (employee numbers)

Poissy 4,700

Rennes 4,000 

Mangualde 730

Vigo 6,000

SPAIN

Villaverde 1,842

UK

Ellesmere Port 1,630

Luton 1,140

Sochaux 9,964

FRANCE

Zaragoza 5,200

GERMANY

Eisenach 1,420

Rüsselsheim 24,050

Mulhouse 7,500

POLAND

Gliwice 2,920

Trnava 3,500

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Job cuts likely to fall on Opel-Vauxhall plants in Germany, Spain and UK, leaving PSA’s 65,000 French car workers relatively unscathed

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CORPORATE STRUCTURES

PSA GROUPE 	

Peugeot 	

Citroën

DS


OPEL GROUP

Opel Europe

Vauxhall UK 
Company filings to end of 2014 (latest available), show Vauxhall pension scheme has deficit of $1bn – major issue for takeover

Chevrolet Europe

Cadillac Europe

Source: PSA Groupe, Opel Group, Financial Times, wire agencies 

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