BMW to build factory in Brazil

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GERMAN automaker BMW says it plans to build a factory in southern Brazil, a more than 200 million euros ($A254.52 million) investment expected to create 1,000 jobs.

The luxury car giant hopes to start building the plant in April next year and producing cars in late 2014, BMW vice president and sales director Ian Robertson said after presenting the project to President Dilma Rousseff.

Once paper work and administrative details are settled in the coming weeks, the agreement to set up the plant will be signed with the government of Santa Catarina state, where the factory will be located.

Robertson said plans are for capacity of 30,000 vehicles a year, although production will depend on demand.

BMW dominates the luxury market in Brazil, where it sells 10,000 to 12,000 vehicles a year.

The Santa Catarina state government will have a stake in the project, its governor Raimundo Colombo said.

Brazil’s car market is the fourth largest in the world, surpassed only by those of China, the United States and Japan. But Brazil is only the world’s seventh largest manufacturer, producing 3.4 million units a year.

For this reason the government is pushing an ambitious incentive plan that penalizes imports and favours domestic production.

The government says it expects to receive $22 billion in investment in the auto sector over the next three years.

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