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Appendix 2 – Personnel, from 1898 to 2005


From 1898 to 1940
Renault had 4,000 employees on the eve of World War One. Due to mobilization, numbers dropped.
But the massive hiring drive required for weapons manufacture brought them to over 22,000 people
in 1918. When defense orders dried up, employee numbers dwindled too. They started to climb
again when civilian business resumed, and rose steadily until the slump following the 1929
depression. In 1939, just before World War Two, Renault had almost 40,000 employees.

Fro 1945 to 2005


For some time, staff numbers matched production growth. In 1976 and ’77, they reached 110,000 people in
France and over 240,000 all over the world. Productivity efforts initiated in the mid-1980s and the end of
peripheral activities halved the numbers of personnel in 2005, both outside France and inside the country,
where the drop subsequently continued.

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