GERMANY: Opel $11bn investment to secure profitability by 2012
Author: Simon Warburton | 9 February 2010
Opel/Vauxhall said the announcement today (9 February) of its EUR11bn (US$15.1bn) investment to 2014 should see the automaker break even next year and return to profit in 2012.
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