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| Type | Société Anonyme |
|---|---|
| Industry | Automotive industry |
| When it was created | 25 February 1899 |
| People who started it | Louis Renault, Marcel Renault, Fernand Renault |
| Headquarters | Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Area served | Worldwide (118 countries) |
| Key people | Carlos Ghosn (Chairman and CEO), Patrick Pelata (COO) |
| Things made | Automobiles, commercial vehicles, financing |
| Money earned | €33.71 billion (2009)[1] |
| Operating income |  (€955 million) (2009)[1] |
| Profit | (€3.125 billion) (2009)[1] |
| Employees | 124,300 (2009)[1] |
| Subsidiaries |
Automobile Dacia (99.43%) |
| Website | Renault.com |
Renault S.A. is a French vehicle manufacturer producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks, and, in the past, autorail vehicles. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's fourth largest vehicle maker.[2] Headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, Renault owns the Romanian Automobile Dacia and the Korean Renault Samsung Motors. The Lebanese-Brazilian Carlos Ghosn is the current CEO. The company's most successful cars to date is the Renault Clio and the Renault Laguna, and its core market is Europe.[2] The company is known for numerous revolutionary designs, security technologies and motor racing.
