Company type | Private limited company |
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Industry | Automotive |
Predecessor | Automobile Craiova |
Founded | 21 March 2008 |
Headquarters | Craiova, Romania |
Key people | Fırat Elhüseyni, president[1] |
Products | Automobiles, engines |
Production output | 190,964 vehicles (2023)[2] |
Revenue | 13,667 million lei (€2,74 million) (2023)[3] |
-15,1 million lei (2023)[3] | |
Number of employees | 5,581 (2023)[3] |
Parent | Ford Otosan |
Website | ford.ro |
Ford Romania, officially Ford Otosan Romania SRL, is an automobile manufacturing company operated by Ford Otosan, located in Craiova, Romania.[4] The company was established in 2008 after Ford's purchase of Daewoo Automobile Romania. In 2022, the Ford Romania company was purchased by Ford Otosan and changed its name to Ford Otosan Romania SRL.
The first Ford subsidiary company in Romania was founded in Bucharest in 1931 and functioned until 1948 when it was nationalized by the Communist authorities. In the 1930s the factory owned by Ford Româna could manufacture 600–700 vehicles per year and was one of six Ford facilities with both assembly and production lines.[5]