Manufacturing Magazine April 2023 | Page 99

Renault Türkiye

Renault Türkiye

İstanbul 1000 employees Revenue : € 3.3bn CEO : Jan Ptacek
Established in 1899 , Renault has become a global giant in the automobile world , worth US $ 29bn . The company entered the Turkish market in 1969 and , by 2021 , Oyak Renault had become Turkey ’ s seventh largest exporter with US $ 2bn in export revenues , totalling a 1 % share of Turkey ’ s exports .
Jan Ptacek , who has held various senior management positions within the Renault Group for 25 years , was recently appointed as the CEO of the company . Ptacek has been at the Renault Group for more than 25 years , working in managerial positions across group sales and marketing in France , Czechia , Romania , Ukraine , and Russia – the latter being where he served as Renault Russia General Manager from 2019-2022 , until the company halted manufacture following Russia ’ s invasion of Ukraine . manufacturingdigital . com 97