MAN is to integrate its truck and bus sales and production in Mexico with the vehicles assembled and sold under MAN Latin America management.
The service network in Mexico will also be integrated into 18 centres with production and sales centred at Querétaro.
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“MAN’s new business model in Mexico is a logical step in our internationalisation,” said MAN board member Jorg Schwitalla. “Following the purchase of Volkswagen Truck & Bus at the end of 2008, we bundled activities in South Africa at one site in 2009.”
“The integration in Mexico will strengthen our development in the Americas as a whole.”
The light truck model to be assembled in Querétaro will be fitted with MAN engines for the first time.
Querétaro will expand to include the assembly of VW branded trucks, which was previously based in Puebla [where VW cars and vans are made], combining local assembly with sales of vehicles imported from Germany and Brazil.
“We will be offering transportation solutions, as we already do throughout Latin America, with MAN and VW branded trucks and buses,” said MAN Latin America president Roberto Cortes.
MAN Latin America employees who do not wish to move to Querétaro will be offered jobs in the Puebla plant.
