BECAN Cars is a global organization that produces various automobiles. The organization has offices in Belgium, Canada,

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BECAN Cars is a global organization that produces various automobiles. The organization has offices in Belgium, Canada, and China. On March 17, 2020, the CEO announced the closure of all offices globally due to the Covid Pandemic, with the immediate transition to a 100% virtual office model.

By Nov 2022 onwards, a hybrid workplace for the office employees will be introduced.

All office employees will have to work two days a week at the office and three days a week from home.

All frontline workers who perform manual labour will work full time at the workplace five days per week.

The offices will be reorganized to comply with a new clean desk policy, which will also impact on the expansion plans of the company. Smaller desk space, reduction of energy consumption, production of waste, and the excessive use of resources such as printing of documentation, improving the company's market position as well as their image are just some of the benefits.

While this may seem like an exciting compromise, some employees may be resistant either because they wish to be fully remote or fully in person.

About BECAN Cars

In 1921 the first BECANcar rolled off the production line in Ghent (Belgium). They merged with a company in 1952 based in Canada, Toronto. In 1987 they became active in the Asian market by a business takeover of a Chinese competitor (based in Beijing). The company made world changing innovations since the first BECAN car. The modern seatbelt. The side impact protection system. The pedestrian detection system. Today, BECAN Cars is one of the most well-known and respected premium car brands, preparing for a new future that will be all electric, autonomous and connected.

Global facilities

BECAN Cars head office is in Ghent (Belgium); regional head offices in Toronto (Canada) and Beijing (China) ; R&D centers in Silicon Valley (California) and Ontario (Canada); and Design Centers throughout Ontario and Brussels. They have production plants in Canada, Belgium, and China, and continue to expand existing operations across EMEA and Asia Pacific. In 2018, they added a new manufacturing plant in Oshawa (Canada)

In 2021, BECAN cars employed approximately 43 000 employees and 2,300 dealers globally. In 2018 they sold 642,253 cars in more than 100 countries

BECAN Cars climate planisto reduce the CO2 emissions per car by 40 percent between 2018 and 2025.

BECAN Cars wants to be the fastest growing premium electric brand and the fastest transformer. We want to lead in safety, core computing, electrification, autonomous drive technology and direct customer relations.

By the middle of this decade, we aim to sell 1.2 million cars globally, with at least half being fully electric cars. Of those annual sales, half will be via online channels. This way we can establish millions of direct customer relationships, together with our strong retail partners. By 2030 we aim to sell only fully electric models

We will continue to focus on developing the next level of safety and autonomous drive standards. Our future models will benefit from core computing power and over-the-air upgrades of software, 50 per cent of which should be developed in-house by mid-decade. In addition to in-house development of technology and software, we will continue to build existing and new strategic partnerships with global technology leaders. We also expect to improve our performance thanks to synergies from collaboration with our sister companies. By jointly developing new technologies, we can deploy them faster and bring about quicker development cycles. Working together with our sister brands is also expected to generate lower procurement costs, shared development costs and other economies of scale.

Financially, we target an annual operating margin of 8-10 per cent by mid-decade, driven by increased sales and revenues across all three global sales regions, more effective sales and distribution channels, synergies with our affiliates and a broader range of fully electric cars.

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