"Fiat S.p.A." Registered Office: via Nizza 250, Turin Share capital ...
"Fiat S.p.A." Registered Office: via Nizza 250, Turin Share capital ...
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present at the FIAT INDUSTRIAL shareholder meeting<br />
held the day before;<br />
he commented that, despite the awful year for Eu-<br />
rope, FIAT had closed 2012 with results which ex-<br />
ceeded both the objectives it had set at the be-<br />
ginning of the year and analysts’ forecasts;<br />
he noted that, from the figures officially ap-<br />
proved by the Board of Directors, it emerged that<br />
revenues were about 84 billion, representing an<br />
increase of about 24 billion compared to 2011, and<br />
that trading profit amounted to 3.9 billion;<br />
he added that he believed the Company had never<br />
achieved such a good result, even before the de-<br />
merger of FIAT INDUSTRIAL;<br />
he noted that the largest contribution came from<br />
the subsidiary CHRYSLER and from North America,<br />
which accounted for 52% of revenues;<br />
he pointed out that the European businesses penal-<br />
ized the Company with losses of approximately 700<br />
million;<br />
he acknowledged that the Board of Directors had<br />
chosen not to pay a dividend out of prudence and<br />
to maintain the current level of liquidity in<br />
light of the requests presented by VEBA, the trade<br />
union fund that still holds a 41.5% share in<br />
CHRYSLER;<br />
he stated that shareholders accepted the sacrifice<br />
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