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Another foreigner came to GAZ
Mr. Eggers is no stranger to Russia - he came here in 1999, when Ford had just begun its own production in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad region, and was the chief financial officer of Ford Russia Manufacturing. In 2003, Mr. Eggers went to the United States and worked for a year at Ford headquarters in Detroit. After which he moved to work in the Asia-Pacific office of the company. Mr. Eggers is a financier and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1995.
The GAZ Group, as stated in its statement, “continues to attract foreign specialists to work in the company to further improve business efficiency and introduce the best global practices in managing automotive corporations.” As you know, the board is also headed by a foreigner - Swede Eric Eberhadson, who was elected to this position at the last annual meeting of GAZ OJSC. Since 2005, he worked as deputy chairman of the board of the GAZ group for strategic development.
As the group's press secretary, Vladimir Torin, told Vremya Novostei, the company will hire as many specialists from abroad as are required for successful work. “If we had mainly the same specialists as in Sweden or Detroit, then our auto industry could be the same as in Sweden and Detroit,” Mr. Thorin said, “but so far this is not the case.”
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Severstal-auto began assembling Japanese medium-duty Isuzu trucks at the facilities of the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant (UAZ). By the end of the year, the company expects to produce 504 cars. The assembly agreement was signed in February. Isuzu NQR 71 will be the first Japanese truck produced in Russia. The cars will have a Euro-2 standard engine. Since 2008, UAZ intends to produce five Isuzu models. The company is also considering the possibility of establishing welding and painting production for Isuzu trucks in the future. It is expected that the retail price of an Isuzu assembled in Ulyanovsk will cost 868 thousand rubles. ($33 thousand). The cars will go on sale from September 1. By the beginning of next year, Severstal-auto plans to organize a national dealer network of 30 centers that will cover all major cities and regional centers of the country. ITAR-TASS