Out of fear of the consequences of a hard Brexits , the Japanese electronics group, Sony moved its European headquarters from the UK to the Netherlands. The administrative headquarters of Sony Europe will be relocated to the end of March from London to Amsterdam, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. The aim is “to avoid cumbersome customs procedures,” should the UK escape without an agreement on the future relations of the EU. Also, the vacuum cleaner company Dyson way, denies a connection with Brexit.
Sony had in the past year, a new company in the Netherlands to register and wants to integrate its European headquarters there. This is a legal step, to leave the European representative of Sony “in the EU”. The in the UK for Sony-working staff and the daily business should not be relocated.
Sony’s rival Panasonic had already been laid in the past year, its European headquarters from the UK to the Netherlands – from concern about tax problems around the Brexit. The UK should leave the EU at the end of March. The last one negotiated with the EU exit plan had failed in the British Parliament, so that an unregulated Brexit is now threatening.
Sir James Dyson, one of the prominent advocates of the UK leaving the EU, curbs the headquarters of his company abroad – to Singapore.
Also, the primarily for their bag-less vacuum cleaner company Dyson announces the relocation of their headquarters from the UK to Singapore. The have nothing to do with the Brexit, it means. Criticism in the homeland, hailing it anyway.
The reason was the growing importance of Asia for the Dyson business. In Asia, a growing majority of the Dyson were now customers, and all production sites, it said. Company founder James Dyson, who controls the company, was one of the prominent proponents of the withdrawal of great Britain from the European Union.
Dyson is working on an electric car that will also be in Singapore to be built. To the investment of the equivalent of 257 million Swiss francs in a technology campus of the British airfield Hullavington and other planned spending in the UK will at the same time recorded.
British locations remain
The British locations would be “in the future, the core center of creative scientific and engineering achievements of Dyson”. The production in the United Kingdom have set Dyson back in 2003, wrote the “Financial Times”. At the same time, it was said, with the relocation of the company headquarters, only two senior executives would move to Singapore: The chief financial officer and the chief lawyer.
For the car project, the Nissan Manager Roland Kruger comes on Board, was there for the upper-class brand, Infiniti, are responsible. Also, he will work in Singapore. From British opposition politicians strongly criticized the move of the company headquarters came. The Labour MP, Wes Streeting James Dyson “hypocrisy accused”: He had no sense of responsibility towards his workers or to his country. Sir James himself, says of the plans.
In the last fiscal year, Dyson has increased its revenues by 28 percent to 5.6 billion francs. The earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) grew by around a third to 1.4 billion Swiss francs, as Dyson said also on Tuesday. (sep/sda/afp)
Created: 23.01.2019, 09:59 PM
