Dear reader,
get a car company on track that burned eight billion euros in 2020? Sounds like gambling. But that’s Luca de Meo’s job at Renault. The basic renovation was remarkably successful, and the French returned to profitability in 2021.
That doesn’t make it any easier for de Meo. Now he has to create a basis for a permanently successful future. The Italian’s recipe: The wrecking ball. The group is broken down into its individual parts, de Meo is even looking for partners and investors for the stock market. Huge plans, for which de Meo would have earned the nickname Lucky Luca – should they work out.
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