MAN BUS PRODUCTION FINALLY PROFITABLE
After a long period of being a loss-making activity, bus manufacturing at MAN finally seems to have reached the status of profitability. According to financial data issued by the Munich truck and bus manufacturer it earned 3 million euros with it’s MAN and Neoplan bus activities in the first six months of 2008, the German journal Automobilwoche analyses.
In the first six months of this year the bus activities of MAN – producing buses and coaches under the MAN and Neoplan marques – reached a turnover of 699 million Euro, resulting in a net profit of 3 million Euro. MAN concentrates on the production and sale of complete buses, mainly integral vehicles. MAN bus chassis are sold in South-European markets and outside Europe. The non-European bus market share of MAN is quite small.