Slow Start to Hella's Fiscal Year

Hella have concluded the first three months of their new fiscal year (1 June to 31 August 2019) with the anticipated decline in sales and earnings. Currency and portfolio–adjusted sales fell by 5.5 percent to €1.6bn due to the further decline of the automotive market. Reported consolidated sales also dropped by 12.1 percent as the…

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Hector Fratty

Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.