BMW wants to purchase more cars from VDL Nedcar, as evidenced by the opening of 150 vacancies for the production floor of the only car factory in the Netherlands. Opposite daily newspaper The Limburger let the company know that this is a normal wave in the flexible workforce.
The BMW X1 and the Mini Countryman are currently being produced at the factory in Born. Only ordered copies roll off the production line, so that indicates an increasing demand for these models at BMW. The increased production means that VDL Nedcar is hiring an extra 150 people to keep the workload at an acceptable level. This involves a flexible layer of employees because the demand is moving in a wave. “Now BMW wants some extra production, but that may also change early next year,” a VDL spokesperson told the newspaper. By the way, BMW has asked suppliers who are strongly in favor of lowering prices, in order to counteract the impact of the corona virus. A BMW spokeswoman has this opposite Automotive management confirmed: “It seems acceptable to us that suppliers who we believe are capable of making a contribution.”
The car market is still not going well. Last month, 29,434 new passenger cars were registered in the Netherlands. This number is 21.9 percent lower than in September 2019. BMW is in eighth place in the top ten brands with 1,508 cars sold. The Bavarian brand is doing better in the Netherlands than Mercedes and Audi. April and May were the most dramatic months this year. The car market is now showing a cautious recovery, the rising demand for cars from BMW confirms this. However, with a cumulative drop of 24.9 percent in sales in 2020, the auto industry is nowhere near pre-corona levels.