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Faurecia

Type	Public
Founded	1997
Headquarters	2 reu Hennape, Nanterre, France
No. of locations	26 countries
Area served	International
Key people	Yann Delabrière, CEO
Industry	Automotive
Products	Exhausts, Seats, Interiors and Front Ends
Services	supplier for Chrysler, Ford, and GM
Website	[1]

Faurecia is the 8th largest international automotive parts manufacturer in the world. It produces 6 types of car modules: seats, cockpits, doors, acoustic packages, front end and exhaust, Faurecia provides parts for GM, Chrysler, and Ford. Headquartered in Nanterre, France, Faurecia operates over 180 sites in 28 countries worldwide. It is part of the french group PSA Peugeot Citroen

[edit] History

On December 11, 1997, Bertrand Faure launched an automotive equipment business merger with business Ecia to form Faurecia . It led to world wide business, by 1999 they generated 4 Mio Euros ($5.4 Mio USD) and a staff of 32.000. They began making exhausts in the U.S. In 2000 they invested in car interiors. Today, Faurecia has earned 11 billion Euros ($14 billion USD) becoming the second largest part supplier with locations worldwide. Faurecia develops and assembles various types of automobile seats for the European, North and South American and Asian markets. In 2006, their Chairman and Chief Executive, Pierre Levi resigned amidst bribery investigations. It was claimed Faurecia paid German car manufacturers to buy their parts.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Official website

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