The Japanese car maker Honda Will After failing the intended merger with Nissan Apparently resume the talks under certain conditions. As the “Financial Times
“(FT) reported on Tuesday, citing an insider, Honda demands the resignation of Nissan boss Makoto Uchida (58) so that the merger talks can be resumed. Honda said that the things that were in the report have not been communicated by the company.
Honda and Nissan announced in December to explore a fusion worth $ 60 billion. The third largest car manufacturer would have been created worldwide
, after Toyota and Volkswagen. They originally wanted to agree until the end of January, but the conversations went longer and finally failed last week. Insiders reported growing differences in opinion between the companies involved. So it is said to have caused trouble at Nissan that Honda wanted to turn the smaller partner a subsidiary.
Nissan is in the middle of a renovation in which 9,000 out of a total of 134,000 employees are to go and the global production capacity is reduced by 20 percent. Among other things, a work in Thailand is to be closed in the first quarter of the coming financial year (until the end of March), two more factories are to follow later.
The red pencil is also set in management, every fifth place should be omitted here. Nissan boss Uchida actually wanted to stay until 2026, but sees the pressure of board members and the French partner Renault suspended to withdraw in the coming months. According to the FT report, the board of directors of Nissan has already taken up informal discussions about the time of Uchidas.