Car sales fell 8.3% to RON9.3 billion last year, from RON10.2 billion in 2011.
Dacia’s car sales in Romania dropped 36% on the year to RON703 million. On foreign markets its car sales declined 5% to RON8.6 billion.
On the car part segment, sales increased 14.7% to RON2.5 billion.
Dacia’s 2012 portfolio included car models Logan, Logan MCV, Logan VAN, Logan Pick-Up, Dacia Sandero and Dacia Duster, as well as car parts for the vehicles it produced.
Dacia car registrations fell 5.7% last year to 308,976 units. The company supplied 21,308 units for the Romanian market, and 287,668 units were sold abroad.
The best-selling car models were Dacia Duster (133,250 units), Dacia Logan (56,911 units) and Dacia Sandero (50,855 units).
Automobile Dacia increased its staff to 13,776 employees last year from 13,710 in 2011. Wage expenses rose 6% to RON722.9 million, and social security expenses climbed 4% to RON183.7 million.
Unionists of Romanian carmaker Dacia and the management of the company Tuesday agreed to a 6% increase of the wage fund starting May 2013. Employees will also be granted a gross bonus of 1,680 lei (EUR383) for the results the carmaker registered in 2012, Dacia said in a press release Tuesday. (EUR1=RON4.3783)