BMW to Halt South Africa Expansion Plans After Strikes

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, the world’s largest maker of luxury vehicles, will stop expansion in South Africa following labor strikes that have disrupted the auto industry for the past two months.

“Any plans to expand our plant or our capacity further have been put indefinitely on hold,” BMW spokesman Guy Kilfoil said in an interview today. “Future decisions are being made where South Africa would have been in the running. Based on the current environment we’re definitely not. You could say things have changed.”