2023-06-26 19:45:13
The general director of the Moscow automobile plant “Moskvich” Dmitry Pronin will leave his post. This was reported to Vedomosti by two sources close to the company. The board of directors of Moskvich is to approve the relevant resolution this week, the interlocutors say.
One of the sources says that the top manager will also return to work in the Moscow Department of Transport and will carry out the general supervision of the plant by the city authorities. At the same time, according to the interlocutors, he will head the board of directors of Moskvich instead of the director of development of Kamaz, Irek Gumerov, who currently holds this position.
Dmitry Pronin will take the position of chairman of the board of directors of the Moskvich plant, a company representative confirmed to Vedomosti. According to him, the top manager, together with his team, successfully completed the task set by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin – to launch production, retaining the workforce, establish logistics supply chains and form a dealer network for the sale and maintenance of new cars.
“In my new position, I see for myself a vast horizon of opportunities associated with the development of a plant operation strategy and concentration on important key areas of production development,” Pronin said through a representative.
Vedomosti’s interlocutors do not know who will head the capital’s automobile plant after Pronin’s departure. One of them suggests that this may be one of the managers from Kamaz, the second notes that the final decision on this matter has not yet been made.
Pronin is 50 years old, he is a graduate of the Moscow Academy of Economics and Law and the RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation. From the second half of the 1990s. and until 2011 inclusive, he worked in the car dealerships “New York Motors Moscow” and “Avilon“. In the latter, he rose to the position of Deputy General Director.
In 2012, Pronin moved to the metropolitan deptrans, where he headed the department for the organization and control of light passenger taxi transportation. Later he became deputy head of the department Maxim Liksutov. From this position, Pronin came to Moskvich (formerly Renault Russia) in 2022, when the plant on Volgogradsky Prospekt was transferred to the ownership of the city by the French group.
Renault was one of the first foreign automakers in Russia, which, after the start of the SVO in Ukraine in 2022, decided to curtail production in the country and leave the market completely. The company owned a plant in Moscow, where Renault crossovers were produced, as well as a share of almost 68% in the largest domestic automaker, AvtoVAZ. As a result of the agreements reached, the French company transferred a share in AvtoVAZ to the NAMI state institute subordinate to the Ministry of Industry and Trade for 1 ruble. with the option to return within six years. For the same price, the Renault Russia plant was given to the Moscow government, but without the right to buy back shares.
It was possible to restart production at the car factory, which the city authorities gave the historical name Moskvich, by the end of November last year. The technological partner of the Moscow government in this project was “Kamaz“. The parties agreed on a parity distribution of shares in the capital of the enterprise and investments in it of 5 billion rubles. Kamaz, on the other hand, contributed to the fact that the cars of the Chinese corporation JAC were taken as the basis of the modern Moskvich. She is a partner of Kamaz in the Compass commercial van project.
According to the plan for this year, Moskvich should produce at least 50,000 vehicles in the SKD mode, 10,000 of them with an electric motor. Basically, these will be Moskvich 3 and Moskvich 3e crossovers, respectively. The production of the latter is still significantly behind the plan: in January-May, only 410 electric Moskvich cars were assembled, follows from the data of the Ministry of Economic Development. In May, Moskvich sold a total of 1,222 vehicles, according to vehicle registration data.
Kamaz wants to be able to more actively manage the operational processes at Moskvich, believes Sergei Burgazliev, an independent automotive industry consultant. “Kamaz, of course, has more automotive competencies than the metropolitan deptrans. The arrival of a manager from there will obviously speed up the decision-making chain at Moskvich,” the expert notes.
Burgazliev added that Pronin was appointed General Director of the plant at an extremely difficult time for the enterprise, and the fact that the project was launched in a very short time should be assessed positively. This should be put as a plus for the manager, the expert believes.
A spokesman for Kamaz declined to comment. In the metropolitan department of transport, Vedomosti did not answer questions.
#plant #Moskvich #replace #general #director #Business #RusLetter