NEVS now employs about 400 people

October 2, 2014Goran AničićNo commentNEVS Saab

NEVS-Saab, struggling to resolve serious financial difficulties by attracting new investors, said Wednesday it had shed 155 workers, close to a third of its workforce.

The redundancies fell short of a previously announced figure of up to 200 employees. The company which now employs about 400 people gave no information about the progress in talks with potential new investors, which if successful could lead to a resumption of production.

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Swedish media reports have indicated that Nevs — 78-per cent owned by China’s National Modern Energy Holdings and 22 percent by the Chinese city of Qingdao — has been in negotiations with automakers Mahindra (India) and Dongfeng (China).

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Goran AničićOctober 2, 2014

the authorGoran Aničić

For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.