April 27 (SeeNews) - Romanian car maker Automobile Dacia, a unit of France's Renault, said on Wednesday its net profit increased 2% to 456.5 million lei ($101 million/100.6 million euro) last year relative to 2015, as turnover rose 8%.
Dacia remained Romania's largest company in terms of turnover, as sales reached 20.2 billion lei last year compared to 19.16 billion lei in 2015, it said in a financial statement posted on its website.
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Worldwide sales of Renault under its Dacia brand fell to 320,344 vehicles last year from 339,179 units in 2015. Duster was the most popular model.
Dacia had 14,001 employees at the end of 2016, down 193 compared to end-2015.
In March 2016, Renault group named Yves Caracatzanis as the new director general of Dacia and Renault Romania.
Renault bought Romania's Automobile Dacia, an ailing state company at the time, in 1999.
Dacia topped the SeeNews ranking of the biggest companies in Southeast Europe by total revenue in 2015, surpassing Romanian oil and gas firm OMV Petrom.
(1 euro = 4.5355 Romanian lei)
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