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Volvo dealer Bluekens financially soundest dealer holding in the Netherlands! • Bluekens is Van den Brug's successor. February 9, 2024 automotive-online Redactie Volvo dealer Bluekens is the financially soundest dealer holding in the Netherlands. This is evident from an analysis by Van Ree Accountants, which looked at the annual figures for the past two years. Second is Renault dealer Nieuwendijk and third is Van den Brug, which topped the rankings last year. The new Automotive Dealerholding Top 60, which can now be ordered, includes a Top 15 of the financially soundest dealer holdings for the fourth time. Based on the annual accounts over several years, a ranking is made for solvency, liquidity and profitability. Bluekens comes out on top overall. Source: https://lnkd.in/eudrnH3K #volvo #automotive #retail

On offshoring Dugast, Vitoria shed a little more light on the unexpected factory closure with NieuwsFiets Media & Events. Paraphrased exerpts into english: Closing a new factory and outsourcing a specialist skill product. Why this rapid and unexpected change? Stijn Vriends: “It happened very quickly and not at all as we expected. High costs of production in the Netherlands, as well as strong inflation, made profitably impossible. On top of that, volumes are down much more than anticipated. We decided to continue production to Thailand as we can deliver the same quality from there" How many staff will be impacted? And Richards Nieuwhuis? Stijn Vriends: “About a dozen Employees left A Dugast by mutual agreement in recent weeks. Richard Nieuwhuis also left and has not yet announced what he will do next. Collaboration with Vittoria in Thailand is an option.” Oldenzaal was the Northern European office of Vittoria. Will it close or will staff stay on? Stijn Vriends: “Oldenzaal will continue to serve as a sales office: The current sales organization with two reps will continue to exist.”

Yesterday Minister of Economic Affairs DirkBeljaarts received Italy’s Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy AdolfoUrso. Here are the key points raised in their conversation: The importance of more efficient #regulation for European small and medium-sized enterprises (#SMEs) as a means to ensure fair competition within Europe and stimulate innovation and growth. The crucial role of substantial investments in Europe's #semiconductor sector, acknowledging that the EU #Chips Act led to the recent project for chips production in Catania, or the one in the Eindhoven-region to facilitate the growth of the sector and ASML in particular. Cooperation between #TheNetherlands and #Italy will be important to increase semiconductor production in Europe and promote innovation. The need to strengthen the European #defence technological and industrial base to reduce our strategic dependencies and to scale up our capacities. The Netherlands and Italy are working together on advanced technologies that strengthen our defence and reduce our dependence on third parties. Read the joint statement here: https://bit.ly/3Ybmx1w Ministry of Economics Dirk Beljaarts Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy

Fantastic. These are the type of entrepreneurs and engineers that make the #energytransition happen through bold action. Deep engineering skills and pragmatic solutions to face the heavy challenge of developing safe, certified and reproducible containerised, modular deployment of #batteries, #hydrogen, #biogas, #watertreatment and other much needed green technologies.

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Good memories crossed my mind this morning, due to this article in regional newspaper brabants dagblad about the attractiveness of the Provincie Noord-Brabant for multinationals like SPIE, DB Schenker, bol, SABIC, and Shell. Early 2011 a relatively unknown car manufacturer called Tesla made an approach to Agency NL - NFIA. A good relationship with Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) gave me the opportunity to introduce DTZ Zadelhoff and myself (heading DTZ's Logistics Team) to senior Tesla managers. We delivered a location study and market inventory of possible warehouse locations in the areas of Greenport Venlo and (my hometown) Gemeente Tilburg. Meanwhile the Ministry of Economics compiled an attractive tax package to Tesla, if they would settle in the Netherlands. Together with Eelko Brinkhoff, we felt a big opportunity coming up for the Province of Noord-Brabant. On a sunny morning I called Roland Verbraak and Wil Versteijnen of BTT Multimodal Container Solutions that we needed help. In order to give a bright presentation of all multi shift supply chain solutions that Tilburg could offer as an inland hub from the Port of Rotterdam into Europe. I also needed assistance in order to demonstrate that the property at Atlasstraat 7 (at logistics park Vitaal Vossenberg) could facilitate Tesla and its ambitions, where amongst 220 car parking on the outside terrain. We took a bunch of traffic pawns and traffic lint and set up a virtual car parking. Roland and I were just ready with our preparations when the delegation of Tesla, led by mr George Blankenship and Bryan Batista, guided by NFIA and BOM managers, arrived on site. It was a great pleasure and honor to meet those gentlemen, who were both involved as right hand men in the enormous ambitions of Elon Musk. I recognized mr Blankenship's name from the biography of Steve Jobs that I was reading at that time, as he had just changed jobs from Apple in Silicon Valley to Tesla's headquarters in Palo Alto (CA). It took a lot of joined effort and about 10 months of persuasiveness, decision making, negotiations, and board approval before we were able to have the parties sign a long-term lease agreement and welcome Tesla in the Netherlands and specifically in Tilburg. At that time, the property was owned and managed by Achmea Real Estate. Today, Logicor owns and manages the asset. The property is still in use as 'Tesla Tilburg store and service center'. Over the years, Tesla leased another couple of distribution centers in Tilburg for its high-level operations. The rest is history. I'm sure the municipality of Tilburg and the strong regional supply chain network is still grateful for Tesla's arrival back in 2012. With a lot of people and companies who have great benefit from Tesla's presence. Some 12 years later, I remain very proud and grateful that I was part of this episode and the team that succeeded in this acquisition. Ondernemen | Gemeente Tilburg ELSI Real Estate Partners

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