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AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE
TALK FROM THE TOP
Rapid rebound
Bentley boss predicts profitable 2019 and record-setting 2020
Meet the boss
❚ NAME: Adrian Hallmark
❚ TITLE: Bentley Chairman
and CEO
❚ AGE: 57
❚ MAIN CHALLENGE:
Photo: Bloomberg
Preparing Bentley to launch
its first electric car as early
as 2025.
We will have a good year, but we are not going for a record.
Next year, it would be hard not to have a record year.
A
drian Hallmark has had a tough production of Bentley's first electric car.
time since returning to Bentley as Hallmark spoke with Automotive News
CEO in February 2018 after 13 years Europe Correspondent Nick Gibbs.
away from the UK luxury brand, seven
of which were spent at Jaguar Land Last year Bentley posted a full-year
Rover. Lengthy delays launching three financial loss but you were profitable
key models - the Continental GT coupe in the first half of this year. What conand convertible, and Flying Spur sedan tributed to that?
- pushed the brand to a rare loss last Last year was a perfect storm. A huge
year as dealers were deprived of cars to effort had gone into creating replacesell. Bentley returned to profit in the first ments for three fantastic nameplates
six months, leaving Hallmark confident [the Continental GT coupe and convertabout a strong 2019 and an even better ible and Flying Spur sedan] and it took
2020. This will provide him with momen- us 18 months longer than we planned to
tum as he starts to prepare the brand's launch them. We have just started selllongtime base in Crewe, England, to add ing the Continental GT in America -- one
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year after it was released in Europe. And
it's still not in China, which means we
have existed this year with 40 percent of
our world markets lacking our core models. The Continental GT is due in China in
the first week of December. So, are we
going to be profitable for the full year?
Yes, as long as China is back this year. If
so, we will have a good year, but we are
not going for a record.
How about in 2020?
Next year, it would be hard not to have
a record year.
Your six-month report mentioned
cost reductions. What has been cut?
In Partnership with
2019
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