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Basic information
UK head company: Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd
International parent: Nissan Motor Co, Ltd, based in Japan
UK headquarters: Sunderland
Company number: 01806912
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| 2014/15 | 2013/14 | 2012/13 | 2011/12 | 2010/11 | Five year average | |
| Employees | 7,241 | 7,564 | 6,695 | 5,863 | 5,489 | 6,570 |
| Turnover | 5,262.267 | 5,319.117 | 4962.649 | 5056.105 | 4307.993 | 4981.626 |
| Profit before tax | 104.469 | 70.238 | -7.958 | -23.316 | -1.667 | 28.353 |
| Profit after tax | 81.579 | 50.568 | 0.797 | -8.129 | -8.006 | 23.362 |
| Tax paid | 22.890 | 19.670 | -1.700 | -5.836 | 11.080 | 9.221 |
| Corporation tax | 17.099 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.420 |
| Other current tax | 0 | -1.267 | -2.803 | -7.947 | 9.621 | -0.479 |
| Deferred tax | 5.791 | 20.937 | 1.103 | 2.111 | 1.459 | 6.280 |
| Capital allowances | -11.238 | 10.420 | 11.002 | 4.138 | -8.450 | 1.174 |
| Government grants received | 17.890 | 12.283 | 9.200 | 3.200 | 4.438 | 9.402 |
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Company Structure
“The company sells its finished vehicle production to the European group head trading company Nissan International SA (NISA), based in Rolle, Switzerland… this agreed trading structure with NISA has been in place for several years” (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2015).
Subsidies/Grants/Loans
Nissan has received support in various forms over the past two decades.
The level of initial tax-payer funded support is provided in Parliamentary answers to questions. In 1984, Norman Lamont (then Minister of State for Trade and Industry) told the House of Commons:
Taking the estimated capital costs of phase I and phase II together of some £350 million, total Government assistance including SFA would therefore be up to some £88 million in a development area, or up to some £112 million in a special development area, depending on eligibility.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1984/feb/08/nissan-motor-company#S6CV0053P0_19840208_CWA_35
The actual cost is difficult to uncover, as are related sums. Nissan itself still noted, in 2015, that an undisclosed amount was paid to support the “construction of buildings in 1989 – (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2015).[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
| Form of support | Value | Year | Notes |
| Loans | |||
| 70,000,000 | 2013/14 | Loan from the European Investment Bank towards improvements to the Leaf (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2014). | |
| 200,000,000 | 2011 | Loan from the European Investment Bank (European Commission, 2011). | |
| 180,000,000 | 2008/09 | European Clean Transport Facility loan from the European Investment Bank, of €400 million, shared roughly equally between the UK and Nissan’s Spanish affiliate (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2009). | |
| R&D grants | |||
| 7,151,000 | 2016 | For work on a high energy density battery. | |
| 41,000 | 2016 | Towards a “high power density SOFC stack module”. | |
| 2016 | Soon to be awarded (amount not yet publicly disclosed) from InnovateUK for “joining technologies to enable implementation of lightweight structures in automotive” (UK Government, 2016). | ||
| 2,420,000 | 2010 | Research and development grant received in 2010 under the REEVolution scheme, which aimed “to deliver high performance Range Extended Electric Vehicles (REEV) and Plug-in Hybrids Electric Vehicles (PHEV)” (UK Government, 2016). | |
| 622,000 | 2009 on | Five further research and development and development grants awarded since 2009 (UK Government, 2016). | |
| 2,460,000 | 2008/09 | Awarded under the Switch EV strand of Technology Strategy Board’s Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles Demonstrator Programme (UK Government, 2016). “As part of Switch EV, Leaf vehicles were given to three individuals, three businesses, three local authorities and three Nissan employees for six months each” (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2011). | |
| Grants | |||
| 9,000,000 | 2012 | £9 million grant from the Regional Growth Fund towards production of the Nissan Note (BBC, 2012) (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2013) | |
| 18,400,000 | Business Investment Schemes relating to the Nissan Note and Infiniti (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2014). | ||
| 6,200,000 | To support production of the Nissan Juke (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2012). | ||
| 20,700,000 | 2010 | To secure the manufacture of the Nissan Leaf and its batteries in Sunderland, both awarded in 2010 (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2010). | |
| 2,000,000 | Grant for Business Investment for a new electricity substation for the battery plant (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2012), | ||
| 5,000,000 | 2005 | To support production of the Nissan Qashqai (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2012). | |
| 1,938,000 | 2009 | To support assembly of petrol engines (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2009) | |
| 1,248,000 | Casting and machining project (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2012). | ||
| 100,000 | 2008 | A grant of approximately £100,000 towards training, awarded in 2008 by the East of England Development Agency (European Commission, 2008). | |
| 3,260,000 | 2003 | Awarded in 2003 to produce a coupe version of the Nissan Micra. The grant was based on production levels; production stopped in 2009, by which time more than £2.61 million had been drawn down (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2009). | |
| 45,000,000 | 2001 | Awarded in 2001 for the development of replacements for the Nissan Primera and Micra (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2011). | |
| 5,000,000 | 2000 | Awarded in 2000 for work on part of the Sunderland site to produce the Nissan Primera (European Commission, 2000). | |
| 1989 | “A substantial grant made in 1989 for the construction of buildings”
No figures available, but the funds are being released over 35 years and continue to be mentioned (although not itemised) in current accounts (Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, 2015). |
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| 125,000,000 | By 1988 | * Grants towards construction of factory (Cornelius, 1988) (The Times, 1990). | |
| Other support | 75,000,000 | 2011 | The Nissan Leaf is eligible for the Plug-In Electric Car Grant, at a value of £5,000 per vehicle until March 2016, then £4,500. With 15,000 UK sales of the car by September that year, this places an upper bound of £75 million on the subsidy (Nissan, 2016) (Office for Low-Emission Vehicles, 2016). |
| 1984 | Discounted rate for purchase of land: £2.4 million for 400 acres, with an option to buy a further 400 acres by 1991 for £2 million (Aaron, 1999). | ||
| 1,500,000 | 1984 | * Derelict Land Grant to cover 100% of cost of decontamination of land (Aaron, 1999). | |
| 1980s | Development grants were guaranteed at 22% rate on plant and machinery, despite cut in rate to 15% in November 1984 (Hetherington, 1986). | ||
| TOTAL SUPPORT | 782,040,000 | ||
| Direct support (including * items) | 255,540,000 | ||
| Direct support excluding * items) | 130,540,000 |
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Sources
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BBC, 2012. The secrets behind Nissan’s Sunderland success story. [Online]
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[Accessed 1 November 2016].
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European Commission, 2008. Information supplied by Member States regarding state aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 of 12 January 2001. [Online]
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Nissan , 2016. Nissan celebrates 15,000 LEAF sales in the UK with £500 ‘Electric September’ customer reward. [Online]
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