Holland Car
| Holland Car PLC
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| legal form | Limited |
| founding | 2005 |
| resolution | 2013 or 2014 |
| Seat | Addis Ababa , Ethiopia |
| management | Tadesse Tessema |
| Number of employees | 250 |
| Branch | Automobiles |
Holland Car PLC was an Ethiopian automobile manufacturer headquartered in Addis Ababa .
Company history
Tadesse Tessema and the Dutch company Trento BV, Engineering founded the company in 2005. In 2005 or 2006 the production of automobiles began . The brand name was Holland Car .
In 2008 plans emerged that a sister company called Cassiopeia would manufacture around 1,500 pick-ups a year from May 2009 at a plant in Tatek .
In November 2012, Capital Ethiopia magazine reported the company's insolvency. Production ended in 2013 or 2014.
Models
The first model was the Holland Car DOCC under license from FIAT . It was technically based on the Fiat 131 and largely corresponded to the version by Tofaş .
This was followed by Holland Car Abay , Holland Car Abay Executive , Holland Car Awash Executive , Holland Car Emay , later renamed Holland Car Imay , Holland Car Naomi , Holland Car Shebelle and Holland Car Tekeze .
Model overview
| Timeline of the Holland Car Plc models . | |||||||||
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| Type | 2000s | 2010s | |||||||
| 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Small car | Naomi | ||||||||
| Compact class | Tekeze | ||||||||
| Compact class | Abay Executive | ||||||||
| DOCC | |||||||||
| Abay | |||||||||
| Middle class | Awash Executive | ||||||||
| Emay | Imay | ||||||||
| Van | Shebelle | ||||||||
| Trailer - bus | Ahadu | ||||||||
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Web links
- Company website ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- d'Auto (Dutch, accessed July 23, 2016)
- Allcarindex (accessed July 23, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Muluken Yewondwossen: Holland Car blames AA transport bureau for bankruptcy On www.capitalethiopia.com of November 26, 2012. (English, accessed on July 23, 2016)
- ↑ a b c d Allcarindex (English, accessed on July 23, 2016)
- ↑ to the company on the history (English) ( Memento of 12 September 2015, Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d'Auto (Dutch, accessed July 23, 2016)
- ↑ Muluken Yewondwossen: Ethiopia - Holland Car opens sister company, introduces new brand On www.nazret.com from November 12, 2008. (English, accessed July 23, 2016)