OREANDA-NEWS. May 13, 2010. As the press service of the Moldovan government has informed, this was announced by the Head of the Department for the Central and Eastern Europe of Daimler AG concern Peter Tretin during the meeting with the Prime Minister of Moldova Vladimir Filat, within his visit to factory Daimler AG in Sindelfingen.

Peter Tretin noted that in 2008 Moldova has sold 130 cars Mercedes and in 2009 due to the global financial crisis, only 70. The Prime Minister of Moldova Vladimir Filat said that he was impressed by what he had seen at the factory, where 36 thousand people are employed and daily output is about 2 thousand of Mercedes cars.

The Prime Minister has assured the representatives of the German company that Moldova is interested in presence of the strong companies at the domestic market, noting in this regard the plant on production of the spare parts for cars (the enterprise with foreign investment Dra Draexlmaier Automotive has opened in Moldova a large German concern Draexlmaier). Vladimir Filat noted that potential investors should take advantage of possibilities offered by geographic location of Moldova.