Ghabbour Group

Ghabbour Group ; مجموعة غبور
legal form	Sharikat al-Mossahamah
ISIN	EGS673T1C012
founding	1960
Seat	Cairo , Egypt
management	Raouf Ghabbour ( CEO ) ; Nader Ghabbour ( COO ) ; Dina Ghabbour ( CBDO ) ; Colin Sykes ( CFO )
sales	approx. 201,400,000 Egyptian pounds
Branch	Vehicle production
Website	www.ghabbourauto.com

The Ghabbour Group (also GB Auto or AUTO.CA on the Egyptian stock exchange) is an Egyptian vehicle manufacturer with headquarters in Cairo .

Company history

The import company Ghabbour Brothers was founded in 1960 by the brothers Kamal and Sadek Ghabbour.

Vehicles of the brands Chevrolet , Buick and Cadillac were introduced . With the economic success, the company could be expanded quickly. In order to minimize import costs, construction of the company's own factory began that same year and the first vehicles rolled off the assembly line a few years later.

Today the manufacturer also builds motorcycles, three-wheeled vehicles from the Indian manufacturer Bajaj Auto and, since 2002, trucks for the African continent. Around 150,000 units are produced per year, and the market share of vehicles sold in Egypt is 25 percent. This makes the Ghabbour Group the largest automobile manufacturer in the Middle East .

On June 25, 2008, the Ghabbour Group agreed a joint venture with the Brazilian MVC Marcopolo , for which a plant was specially built in the city of Suez . The opening ceremony took place on August 20, 2008. The production capacity is 1,500 units per year of production, which is to be increased to 8,000 units by 2014. Among other things, the plant is intended to expand the range of Volvo trucks . The first vehicle from the new plant is the Volvo B9R Oreon .