The cold winter of the automobile market, coupled with the once-in-a-century changes brought by the "new four modernizations" to the automobile industry, makes the automobile parts industry particularly turbulent in 20 19. Next, let's take a look at what happened in the auto parts industry at home and abroad on 20 19!
international
1. Parts giants laid off a large number of employees.
Since the beginning of 20 19, many well-known parts companies in the world, including Bosch, Continental, Osram, Schaeffler, Autoliv, BASF, Mahler, etc. , have announced plans to lay off employees, ranging from hundreds to thousands. For example, Continental plans to carry out structural transformation in the next decade, and it is estimated that more than 20,000 people will be laid off.
2.ZF's acquisition of Webeco
2065438+At the end of March 2009, ZF announced the acquisition of Webeco at the price of $0/36.5 per share, with a total share price of about $7 billion. The transaction is expected to be completed in early 2020. The combined annual sales of the two parties will reach 40 billion euros, which is expected to rank among the top three parts in the world.
3.LG Chemistry and SKI are in court.
In the United States, South Korean battery manufacturer LG Chem accused SKI of stealing LG Chem's trade secrets by hiring its former employees, and won the contract with Volkswagen Group by fraudulent means. SKI denied this accusation, and in turn accused LG Chem of infringing its electric vehicle battery patent.
Hitachi and Honda merged their parts business.
2019165438+1At the beginning of October, Hitachi and Honda announced the integration of Hitachi Automotive Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, and Showa Jingbin Nisshin Industrial, a subsidiary of Honda, into a brand-new company, with Hitachi holding 66.6% and Honda holding 33.4%.
domestic
5. Overseas M&A in Wei Chai
20 19 12, Wei Chai completed the strategic acquisitions of ARADEX. This is another international strategic layout in the field of new energy power system after Wei Chai and British Siris Power jointly invested in Ballard.
6. BYD cooperates with car companies to provide electricity.
2065438+In June 2009, Toyota announced that BYD had entered its supply chain system to provide power batteries for Toyota. Audi also confirmed that it is negotiating with BYD to buy batteries. In addition, in order to better cooperate with car companies, BYD expects to spin off the battery business and go public independently around 2022.
7. Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. won a large order for batteries.
Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. has successively obtained orders for power batteries of platform of MEB electric vehicle project of Volkswagen Group and 4 billion euros of batteries of BMW Group. 20 19 10, BMW group increased the battery order of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. from 4 billion euros to 7.3 billion euros.
8. Waterma entered bankruptcy liquidation.
On October 20 19, 1 1 year 10, Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court ruled to accept the bankruptcy liquidation case of Waterma. The court initially found out that Waterma was still operating, with external liabilities of about 654.38+09.7 billion yuan and accumulated debts of about 5.4 billion yuan to 559 suppliers. After the court ruled, Waterma announced that it had entered the bankruptcy liquidation procedure.
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