Valeo supported by the scrappage

The automotive supplier Valeo has made over the first three months of the year a consolidated turnover of 2.309 billion euros, up sharply from 42% over the same period of 2009. On Monday, its biggest competitor, Faurecia, has published a quarterly revenue of 3.2 billion euros, up almost 60%.

This 42% increase in sales is twice what the group had planned two months earlier. In late February, when the annual results of the group, the Director-General Jacques Aschenbroich had said the first quarter was broadly in line with the activity of the previous three months, emerged up 21%.

"Valeo's business in the first quarter confirmed the group's ambition to become the partner of automakers in the technologies to reduce emissions of C02, for which we plan to double our turnover of 2013, "commented Jacques Aschenbroich, quoted in the statement, issued after-hours trade.

The automotive industry in France is supported by the boom in orders, which marked the end of 2009 in anticipation of the phasing out of the car scrapping. The second half of the year remains uncertain, and Valeo has delivered on Thursday any evidence on the evolution of the activity on the second part of the year. "Despite a moderate decline in car production in Europe, Valeo anticipates second quarter 2010 sales of the same level as the first quarter," simply stated the group.

The supplier has unveiled a strategic plan in early March by which it expects to achieve a turnover of ten billion euros and an operating margin of 6% to 7% in 2013.

In 2010, Valeo anticipates a near-doubling of its operating margin to 1.8% emerged in 2009, a goal also confirmed Thursday night.

At the Paris Bourse, Valeo closed down 0.77% to 26.36 euros in a market down 1.33%.

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